Blackstone Group promotes a massive debt financing plan for Anthropic's chip transactions.

Blackstone Group has held preliminary discussions with investors to gauge their interest in a second major debt financing plan, aimed at funding Anthropic PBC's use of chips from Alphabet's Google. According to sources, an initial proposal involves at least $36 billion in debt, which would exceed the $35 billion debt scale that Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group finalized about two months ago. This potential new financing round comes shortly after Anthropic secretly submitted its initial public offering application in the U.S., as the company attempts to go public ahead of its competitor, OpenAI.