Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions'

Google and Anthropic have struck a deal that will see the AI upstart gain access to up to a million of the web giant’s tensor processing units (TPUs) and involve “tens of billions of dollars.”

The two companies announced the deal on Thursday, with Anthropic pitching it as “expanded capacity” that the company will use to meet surging customer demand and allow it to conduct “more thorough testing, alignment research, and responsible deployment at scale.”

Google’s take on the deal is that it will enable Anthropic to “train and serve the next generations of Claude models,” and involves “additional Google Cloud services, which will empower its research and development teams with leading AI-optimized infrastructure for years to come.”

The search and ads giant claims the deal “represents the largest expansion of Anthropic's TPU usage to date” and says the AI upstart “chose TPUs due to their price-performance ...