Google to offer Ironwood TPU for public use; Anthropic among first major clients

Tech giant Google will release its specialised chip, called Ironwood, designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) models for public use in the coming weeks.

Per a report by CNBC on Thursday, Google will also announce upgrades to Cloud, making it “cheaper, faster, and more flexible.” The report added that AI startup Anthropic is also planning to use up to one million of the new TPUs to run its Claude model.

Ironwood is the seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) launched by the search giant in April this year for testing and…