US EditionAnthropic inks multibillion-dollar deal with Google for AI chips
Anthropic will access over 1 million Google TPUs, delivering more than 1 gigawatt of AI compute power in 2026 to support rapid growth and next-gen Claude models.
- Anthropic announced on Thursday that it will access up to one million Tensor Processing Units, worth tens of billions and providing over one gigawatt of capacity in 2026.
- Anthropic's escalating compute demand reflects explosive growth, serving more than 300,000 business customers, while its multi-cloud architecture optimizes workloads across Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, and Nvidia GPUs.
- Google emphasised TPUs' price-performance and Ironwood while deepening ties through a $3 billion investment and holding a 14% stake in Anthropic.
- The announcement prompted immediate market movement as Google shares rose more than 1% premarket, and Anthropic retains control over model weights, pricing, and data on Google Cloud.
- The deal adds to an escalating AI hardware arms race, with industry estimates peaking at about $35 billion for chips in a 1-gigawatt data centre, and the company's press release warns of forward-looking risks.
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The AI start-up Anthropic is expanding its computing capabilities massively through an agreement with Google. Up to a million TPU chips will be used in the Google cloud, Anthropic announced on Thursday. The expansion is expected to drive the development of the next generations of the AI model Claude and serve the rapidly growing customer demand.The new capacity of more than one gigawatt worth a double-digit billion dollar amount is expected to b…
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