In a move that underscores the growing importance of collaboration in the artificial intelligence sector, Anthropic and Google Cloud have forged a major partnership aimed at advancing AI innovation and scalability. The deal is designed to significantly enhance Anthropic's computational resources, enabling the company to improve its AI models and make strides in both capabilities and performance.
Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind the Claude chatbot, will leverage Google Cloud's cutting-edge Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to train, scale, and deploy its AI systems. The multi-year agreement, estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars, will provide Anthropic with over a gigawatt of computing capacity as it ramps up training for its next generation of AI models. In total, Anthropic will have access to up to one million TPU chips, as well as additional Google Cloud services, empowering its research and development teams with leading AI-optimized infrastructure for years to come. This expansion marks one of the largest known single deployments of Google's in-house AI chips, expected to come online in 2026.
This partnership strengthens Anthropic's existing relationship with Google, one of its largest backers, which has already invested over $3 billion in the San Francisco-based startup. Google's initial partnership with Anthropic was announced in early 2023, with the goal of co-developing AI computing systems.
According to Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, the expansion will help the company continue to grow the compute it needs to define the frontier of AI, ensuring that they can meet exponentially growing demand while keeping their models at the cutting edge of the industry. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian stated that Anthropic's decision to significantly expand its usage of TPUs reflects the strong price-performance and efficiency its teams have seen with TPUs for several years.
Anthropic's strategic intent for this capital includes deepening enterprise integration across 300,000+ business customers, expanding research leadership, and aggressive entry into new markets. Anthropic's latest move is part of a deliberate multi-cloud strategy designed to balance performance, cost, and supply chain resilience. While deepening its ties with Google, Anthropic has clarified that Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains its primary partner for training its AI models. Amazon remains one of Anthropic's biggest investors, having committed $8 billion and begun building a massive data center cluster to support large-scale AI training. This diversified setup allows Anthropic to maintain flexibility in sourcing compute power amid global shortages of high-performance chips.
This partnership comes at a time when AI startup valuations are rising rapidly as investors pour more money into the field. In September 2025, Anthropic raised its valuation to $183 billion following a $13 billion Series F funding round. The company's run-rate revenue grew from approximately $1 billion at the beginning of 2025 to over $5 billion by August 2025. As of November 2025, Anthropic is the third most valuable private company globally, valued at over $350 billion.
Google Cloud is also pursuing a distinct strategy in the AI infrastructure race by targeting emerging AI startups. This approach aims to secure future growth by supporting innovative new ventures, potentially leading to Google Cloud hosting a significant portion of AI applications by late 2026. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform.
The partnership between Anthropic and Google Cloud highlights the growing importance of collaboration in the AI sector. As both companies work together to develop and enhance AI technologies, the implications could be far-reaching, influencing not only the immediate stakeholders but also the technology landscape as a whole.
