Anthropic IPO prospectus discloses Broadcom providing up to $42 billion in loans for leasing chips and other infrastructure

Anthropic's IPO prospectus reveals that Broadcom agreed to provide loans of up to $42 billion (approximately 282.011 billion RMB) to support infrastructure expenses such as compute leasing. Anthropic is expected to become Broadcom's largest customer in its chip design business next year. The prospectus also discloses that Broadcom holds dual roles as both a hardware supplier and a financing partner, constituting a potential conflict of interest that could affect Anthropic's access to core R&D compute power; neither party commented.