Company
Date Published
Author
Anthropic Team
Word count
408
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Anthropic is significantly expanding its use of Google Cloud technologies by incorporating up to one million Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), in a move valued at tens of billions of dollars, to enhance its AI research and product development capabilities. This expansion, expected to bring over a gigawatt of capacity online in 2026, is part of Anthropic's strategy to meet the growing demand from its 300,000 business customers, which include a rapidly increasing number of large accounts. The expansion aims to support more comprehensive testing, alignment research, and responsible large-scale deployment, as well as maintain Claude's cutting-edge status in the industry. Anthropic employs a diversified compute strategy, utilizing Google's TPUs, Amazon’s Trainium, and NVIDIA’s GPUs, to advance Claude's capabilities while maintaining strong partnerships, including a continued collaboration with Amazon on Project Rainier. The announcement comes amid Anthropic's international growth, with a new office in Seoul, and reaffirms its commitment to American AI leadership.