The deal increases Anthropic’s ties to Google, one of its largest investors, having already invested more than US$3 billion. Google will bring more than one gigawatt of AI computing capacity online for the AI startup using its custom chips known as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).

Anthropic hopes to significantly increase its compute resources as it continues to push the boundaries of AI research and product development. The company has already developed Claude, its family of LLMs designed to be online AI assistants.

“Anthropic’s choice to significantly expand its usage of TPUs reflects the strong price-performance and efficiency its teams have seen with TPUs for several years,” commented Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud. “We are continuing to innovate and drive further efficiencies and increased capacity of our TPUs, building on our already mature AI accelerator portfolio, including our seventh generation TPU, Ironwood.”

Founded by former OpenAI researchers, the AI company has quickly expanded its operations globally in recent months and now serves more than 300,000 business customers. The company said the Google partnership will help it serve its rapidly growing customer demand, in addition to having the compute to power more thorough testing, research and responsible deployment at scale.

Its compute strategy is unique and is targeting the enterprise market. By focusing on a diversified approach that uses three chip platforms – Google’s TPUs, Trainium by Amazon and Nvidia’s GPUs – Anthropic can adopt different specialised workloads. Also priding itself on a multi-platform approach, Anthropic is aiming to continue advancing Claude’s capabilities, alongside strong industry partnerships.

“We remain committed to our partnership with Amazon, our primary training partner and cloud provider and continue to work with the company on Project Rainier, a massive compute cluster with hundreds of thousands of AI chips across multiple US data centres,” the company said via a statement

“Anthropic will continue to invest in additional compute capacity to ensure our models and capabilities remain at the frontier.”

Krishna Rao, CFO of Anthropic, added: “Anthropic and Google have a longstanding partnership and this latest expansion will help us continue to grow the compute we need to define the frontier of AI.

“Our customers—from Fortune 500 companies to AI-native startups—depend on Claude for their most important work, and this expanded capacity ensures we can meet our exponentially growing demand while keeping our models at the cutting edge of the industry.”

To date, Amazon has invested $8 billion into Anthropic.

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