Blackstone Group has held preliminary discussions with investors to assess their interest in a second huge debt financing package, which aims to fund Anthropic PBC's use of AlphaBet-owned Google chips. According to people familiar with the matter, an initial proposal involves a debt of at least 36 billion US dollars, which will exceed the 35 billion US dollar debt that Apollo Global Management and Kuroishi Group finalized about two months ago. This potential new funding round comes on the heels of Anthropic's secret US initial public offering filing, and the company is trying to hit the open market in time for rival OpenAI

Blackstone Group has held preliminary discussions with investors to assess their interest in a second huge debt financing package, which aims to fund Anthropic PBC's use of AlphaBet-owned Google chips. According to people familiar with the matter, an initial proposal involves a debt of at least 36 billion US dollars, which will exceed the 35 billion US dollar debt that Apollo Global Management and Kuroishi Group finalized about two months ago. This potential new funding round comes on the heels of Anthropic's secret US initial public offering filing, and the company is trying to hit the open market in time for rival OpenAI