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Bloomberg reports a Wall Street group, including private-equity giant Blackstone, is assembling about $60B to finance Broadcom’s AI chip program and to support customers such as Anthropic PBC. The clip matters because it surfaces how financing ovens up around chips as a separate product ecosystem, lenders and lessors are treating chips like capital equipment to be leased or financed, not just inventory. That shift changes who earns returns from AI: not only chip makers but also finance firms that package and syndicate deals.