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TSMC joins AI financing, making the supply chain draw a circle
· New York time
Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC plans to invest $1 billion in Anthropic and OpenAI, adding financial ties between a major semiconductor company and two AI developers. The move comes amid scrutiny of circular financing in the AI boom. AI companies need computing hardware, while chipmakers benefit from demand for that capacity. Investment can connect businesses on different sides of that relationship more closely, even though financing and demand for products are distinct things. For the US technology sector, the plan links a central participant in the global chip supply chain with two prominent AI developers. The infrastructure behind AI includes not only processors and data centers but also financial relationships among the companies building and selling the technology. The industry likes to describe a virtuous circle. An assessment still has to follow where the money goes and what each participant expects in return. A circle can be an elegant diagram, but it is not a substitute for a balance sheet.
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