Google Cloud just announced that Anthropic has signed a major deal that will expand its use of the search giant’s TPU chips for training future Claude models. According to the press release, this will allow the AI company to use up to a million TPUs from Google, as well as access other cloud services that it offers, giving Anthropic over a gigawatt of compute capacity by 2026.
The company has already been using Google Cloud’s services since 2023, when it first signed a strategic partnership to use the latter’s infrastructure to train and run its models. Anthropic has since used Google Cloud’s platforms, including Vertex AI and Google Cloud Marketplace, to offer its Claude models to customers, including design and collaboration platform Figma, cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, and AI code editor Cursor, among others.
