[Broadcom, Apollo, and Blackstone Support Anthropic Compute Project] Odaily Planet Daily reports that Broadcom has announced its support, along with Apollo and Blackstone, for the Anthropic compute project, which is said to aim at indirectly stimulating chip demand growth. While the deal ostensibly falls under AI compute infrastructure financing arrangements, industry analysts believe its deeper purpose lies in driving large-scale AI computing deployments to indirectly boost long-term demand for Broadcom's custom AI chips. Such AI compute projects involving private equity capital are emerging as a new financing model connecting chip designers, AI model companies, and data center capital. However, they also come with uncertainties in demand expectations and capital returns. (The Information)