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Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said Thursday it was expanding its use of Google cloud computing and specialized chips in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars.
The arrangement will include Anthropic buying as many as one million Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are integrated circuits custom-designed by Google, according to the San Francisco-based startup.
The expansion promises to let Anthropic bring more than a gigawatt of new computing power online by the end of 2026, enabling it to meet “exponentially growing demand” for its Claude…
