Google and Anthropic have struck a deal that will see the AI upstart gain access to up to a million of the web giant\u2019s tensor processing units (TPUs) and involve \u201ctens of billions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two companies announced the deal on Thursday, with Anthropic pitching<\/a> it as \u201cexpanded capacity\u201d that the company will use to meet surging customer demand and allow it to conduct \u201cmore thorough testing, alignment research, and responsible deployment at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n Google\u2019s take<\/a> on the deal is that it will enable Anthropic to \u201ctrain and serve the next generations of Claude models,\u201d and involves \u201cadditional Google Cloud services, which will empower its research and development teams with leading AI-optimized infrastructure for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n The search and ads giant claims the deal \u201crepresents the largest expansion of Anthropic’s TPU usage to date\u201d and says the AI upstart \u201cchose TPUs due to their price-performance and efficiency, and the company’s existing experience in training and serving its models with TPUs.\u201d<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s announcement points out it\u2019s betting on companies other than Google.<\/p>\n \u201cAnthropic\u2019s unique compute strategy focuses on a diversified approach that efficiently uses three chip platforms \u2013 Google\u2019s TPUs, Amazon\u2019s Trainium, and Nvidia\u2019s GPUs,\u201d the statement explains. \u201cThis multi-platform approach ensures we can continue advancing Claude’s capabilities while maintaining strong partnerships across the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n Anthropic also stated: \u201cWe 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 U.S. data centers.\u201d<\/p>\n AI infrastructure announcements nearly always feature enormous numbers and breathless enthusiasm about how the tech will improve everything \u2026 but little detail about how players will pay for, and profit from, the billions spent on giant chip farms.<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s news departs from that script a little by mentioning that it \u201cnow serves more than 300,000 business customers, and our number of large accounts \u2013 customers that each represent more than $100,000 in run-rate revenue \u2013 has grown nearly 7x in the past year.\u201d The company didn\u2019t say how many of those $100k customers it has on the books, but reportedly<\/a> plans to generate up to $26 billion of annual revenue by 2026. By way of comparison, HPE booked $30 billion in revenue in its FY 2024, while Google’s parent company Alphabet generated $350 billion in revenue last year. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google and Anthropic have struck a deal that will see the AI upstart gain access to up to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-94874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}