据《华尔街日报》报道，博通公司（Broadcom Inc.）正在为其与OpenAI合作开发的定制人工智能芯片筹集超过500亿美元的资金，这是为人工智能基础设施付费的一系列交易激增的一部分。
Inc. is arranging more than $50 billion in financing for the custom artificial intelligence chip it’s developing with OpenAI, part of a surge in deals to pay for AI infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported.
该报援引不愿透露姓名的知情人士的话称，阿波罗全球管理公司（Apollo Global Management Inc.）和黑石集团（Blackstone Inc.）是将参与该交易的贷款机构之一。
Apollo Global Management Inc. and Blackstone Inc. are among the lenders in talks to participate in the deal, the Journal said, citing unidentified people familiar with the discussions.
与此同时，该报报道称，甲骨文公司（Oracle Corp.）正在与阿波罗和高盛集团（Goldman Sachs Group Inc.）洽谈，以筹集资金购买芯片。
Oracle Corp., meanwhile, is talking to Apollo and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to line up money for the purchase of chips, the newspaper reported.
面对装备数据中心不断飙升的成本，这些公司正在寻求这些交易。旨在支持软件和服务激增的人工智能建设，促使科技巨头寻求新的融资形式。
The companies are seeking the deals in the face of soaring costs to outfit data centers. The AI build-out — meant to support a proliferation of software and services — has prompted tech giants to seek new forms of financing.
博通此前曾在6月份表示，已与阿波罗和黑石作为基石投资者建立了一个平台，帮助到2028年为包括Anthropic PBC和OpenAI在内的人工智能开发商融资超过20吉瓦的计算能力。该平台以阿波罗牵头、与黑石合作的350亿美元初始分期开始。
Broadcom had already said in June that it had established a platform, with Apollo and Blackstone as anchor investors, to help finance more than 20 gigawatts in computing capacity for AI developers including Anthropic PBC and OpenAI through 2028. The platform began with an initial tranche of $35 billion led by Apollo, in partnership with Blackstone.
彭博社在8月份报道称，博通与一组贷款机构进行了会谈，拟为一项人工智能芯片融资交易筹集超过600亿美元的债务，该交易将使Anthropic和其他公司受益。
Bloomberg reported in August that Broadcom held talks with a group of lenders to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies.