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This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
Two racks of TPU 8i chips. Each rack has eight boards with four TPUs. Credit: Google
Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.
The investment follows Amazon’s $5 billion initial investment in Anthropic a few days ago; the Amazon deal also leaves the door open to further investment based on performance. Both investments value Anthropic at $350 billion.
Anthropic has seen rapid growth in the use of its Claude models and related products, such as Claude Code, which promises to significantly increase the speed and efficiency with which companies or individuals can develop software. (The reality varies from big improvements to setbacks, depending on the nature of the project and company, how Claude Code is used, and many other factors.)
Several factors contributed to Anthropic’s success in recent months, including controversies around OpenAI and its ChatGPT product and models, more robust agentic workflows, and new products like Claude Cowork, which does some of the same things for general knowledge work tasks as Claude Code does for software development.
The result has been a dramatic increase in demand for Anthropic’s services, leading to outages and other problems. Anthropic has been testing solutions to reduce demand, like imposing limits during peak hours, or exploring removing some of the most compute-intensive tools from cheaper service plans.
These investments are meant to help close the gap between demand and supply of compute for Claude Code and its ilk. Amazon and Google are providing chips suitable for AI training and inference and cloud compute capacity to help Anthropic scale up quickly.
This has become a common scheme for investment in AI companies like Anthropic; established companies like Microsoft have products and services that can help new AI companies like Anthropic scale, so the former invests in the latter so the latter can, in turn, pay for the former’s products and services.
This is not the first time Anthropic has received investment from Google, even though Google is ostensibly competing with Anthropic over AI models.
Two racks of TPU 8i chips. Each rack has eight boards with four TPUs. Credit: Google
Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports.
The investment follows Amazon’s $5 billion initial investment in Anthropic a few days ago; the Amazon deal also leaves the door open to further investment based on performance. Both investments value Anthropic at $350 billion.
Anthropic has seen rapid growth in the use of its Claude models and related products, such as Claude Code, which promises to significantly increase the speed and efficiency with which companies or individuals can develop software. (The reality varies from big improvements to setbacks, depending on the nature of the project and company, how Claude Code is used, and many other factors.)
Several factors contributed to Anthropic’s success in recent months, including controversies around OpenAI and its ChatGPT product and models, more robust agentic workflows, and new products like Claude Cowork, which does some of the same things for general knowledge work tasks as Claude Code does for software development.
The result has been a dramatic increase in demand for Anthropic’s services, leading to outages and other problems. Anthropic has been testing solutions to reduce demand, like imposing limits during peak hours, or exploring removing some of the most compute-intensive tools from cheaper service plans.
These investments are meant to help close the gap between demand and supply of compute for Claude Code and its ilk. Amazon and Google are providing chips suitable for AI training and inference and cloud compute capacity to help Anthropic scale up quickly.
This has become a common scheme for investment in AI companies like Anthropic; established companies like Microsoft have products and services that can help new AI companies like Anthropic scale, so the former invests in the latter so the latter can, in turn, pay for the former’s products and services.
This is not the first time Anthropic has received investment from Google, even though Google is ostensibly competing with Anthropic over AI models.