Google, Anthropic Announce Cloud Deal Worth Tens of Billions (2)

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will supply up to 1 million of its specialized AI chips to Anthropic PBC, a deal worth tens of billions of dollars that deepens its partnership with the fast-growing artificial intelligence startup.

The arrangement, announced Thursday, gives Anthropic vastly more computing capacity while cementing Google’s position as both a major investor and key infrastructure provider in the escalating race to power large AI models.

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The tensor processing units, or TPUs — Google’s custom-designed chips that accelerate machine learning workloads — are slated to be deployed ...