- Anthropic strikes deal worth “tens of billions of dollars” with Google Cloud
- The Claude manufacturer will add more Google TPUs to its Nvidia GPU and Amazon Trainium portfolio
- Amazon remains Anthropic’s “primary training partner and cloud provider”
Anthropic has signed a multi-billion dollar deal with Google that will see the AI company get up to one million Google Cloud tensor processing units (TPUs) for training and running its large language models (LLMs).
The deal, which Anthropic says is worth “in the billions of dollars,” will mean the company could have well over a gigawatt of computing capacity by 2026.
The expansion comes after a successful year for Anthropic, which has seen the number of customers worth $100,000+ in runrate revenue grow nearly 7x in the past year thanks to the ongoing AI boom.
Anthropic boosts capacity
Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao notes that the move is a continuation of the partnership between it and Google Cloud, which was likely chosen for its price performance and energy efficiency — not to mention the existing positive relationship between the two.
Due to the power supply design of Google’s TPUs, they are typically more power efficient than Nvidia’s GPUs, which are synonymous with other AI technology such as Anthropic competitor OpenAI.
Such a big deal is likely a good sign for Google, which wants to challenge Nvidia’s market dominance.
“We continue to innovate and drive further efficiency and increased capacity of our TPUs, building on our already mature AI accelerator portfolio, including our seventh generation TPU, Ironwood,” explained Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian.
However, Google is not Anthropic’s only partner. Nvidia’s GPUs and Amazon’s Trainium also play an important role in the company’s multi-vendor strategy, and indeed Amazon remains Anthropic’s “primary training partner and cloud provider.”
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