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Fundingvia FinimizeToday · 12:51 AM

Broadcom Lines Up $63B Financing from BofA, Blackstone, Citi, Morgan Stanley

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What happened

Bank of America, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are lining up $63 billion to finance Broadcom's AI chips and networking equipment and lease it to Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot, Reuters reported.

Why it matters

The structure matters because it spreads risk in an unusual way.

In detail

The deal would run through a special purpose vehicle, a stand-alone entity created to buy the hardware and collect lease payments from Anthropic.

Deliveries are slated to begin in 2027 under a previously announced compute-capacity agreement involving Broadcom.

Bank of America, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are arranging first-lien debt, meaning they would be paid first if the vehicle had to seize and sell the equipment, while Blackstone would take the riskier second-lien layer behind them.

Broadcom is also offering "residual value support," a promise to cover declines in the hardware's resale value up to an amount equal to the first-lien debt.

That makes the senior lenders less dependent on Anthropic's cash burn, and it makes the arrangement look more like asset-backed lending than a straight loan to a money-losing startup.

Reuters also pointed to an earlier, separate financing package led by Apollo and Blackstone for Anthropic's computing buildout, a sign that banks and private-credit firms are increasingly serving as the balance sheet for AI infrastructure. Reuters says Anthropic has filed for an IPO, and this approach can help it secure computing capacity without relying only on public markets. Once deliveries begin in 2027, the second-lien layer is where stress would show first if lease payments or resale values disappoint, though it also carries higher potential returns.

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Broadcom Lines Up $63B Financing from BofA, Blackstone, Citi, Morgan Stanley

Audio brief

What happened

Why it matters

The structure matters because it spreads risk in an unusual way.

In detail

The deal would run through a special purpose vehicle, a stand-alone entity created to buy the hardware and collect lease payments from Anthropic.

Deliveries are slated to begin in 2027 under a previously announced compute-capacity agreement involving Broadcom.

Broadcom is also offering "residual value support," a promise to cover declines in the hardware's resale value up to an amount equal to the first-lien debt.

That makes the senior lenders less dependent on Anthropic's cash burn, and it makes the arrangement look more like asset-backed lending than a straight loan to a money-losing startup.

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