Anthropic has announced a major expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud, revealing plans to scale up its use of Google’s advanced Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to as many as one million units. The multibillion-dollar initiative, valued in the tens of billions, will add over one gigawatt of computing capacity by 2026, marking one of the most significant investments in AI infrastructure to date.
The expansion strengthens Anthropic’s ability to accelerate AI research, enhance its Claude models, and meet rising global demand for responsible AI solutions.
According to Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, Anthropic’s decision “reflects the strong price-performance and efficiency its teams have seen with TPUs for several years.” Google continues to evolve its AI hardware, including its upcoming seventh-generation TPU, Ironwood, to meet the needs of large-scale AI developers.
Anthropic’s business growth has been rapid, with over 300,000 business customers and a sevenfold increase in enterprise clients contributing more than $100,000 annually. The added compute power will support this growth and ensure high standards of reliability, model performance, and research innovation.
“Our customers, from Fortune 500 companies to AI-native startups, depend on Claude for their most important work,” said Krishna Rao, Chief Financial Officer at Anthropic. “This expanded capacity ensures we can meet our exponentially growing demand while keeping our models at the cutting edge.”
The company emphasized that the collaboration also advances responsible AI development, testing, and alignment research. Anthropic maintains a diversified compute strategy, working with Amazon’s Trainium chips, NVIDIA GPUs, and Google TPUs to balance performance and cost efficiency.
Even with this new expansion, Anthropic reaffirmed its commitment to Amazon, its primary training partner, noting ongoing work on Project Rainier, a massive distributed compute cluster across U.S. data centers.
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By scaling its compute infrastructure and deepening its partnerships, Anthropic is positioning itself as a global leader in the race to develop powerful, safe, and efficient AI systems, paving the way for the next generation of transformative technology.
