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Anthropic’s IPO prospectus highlights a notable dependency: nearly half the company’s sales are routed through cloud partners Amazon and Google, according to ITPro. The disclosure puts a concrete figure on the infrastructure ties behind a fast-growing AI business.

ITPro says the prospectus raises questions about supplier concentration across the AI ecosystem. It also reports that enterprise technology leaders are being advised to consider resilience, supply chains and whether data and workflows can move between providers. For customers, the point is practical: an AI supplier’s fortunes may depend partly on the cloud companies carrying its business. That is useful context for procurement, though it does not tell us how easily Anthropic or its customers could switch providers.

Discuss: When choosing an AI provider, should customers treat its dependence on cloud partners as a deal-breaker, or as ordinary infrastructure plumbing?

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