Access to one million purpose-built AI accelerators, among other things, is part of the deal.
US-based AI company Anthropic has signed a major deal with Google Cloud that is said to be worth tens of billions of dollars. As part of the deal, Anthropic will have access to up to one million of Google’s purpose-built Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) AI accelerators.
“Anthropic and Google have a long-standing partnership and this latest expansion will help us continue to expand the computing power we need to push the boundaries of AI,” said Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao in a statement quoted by CNBC.
However, Anthropic has no intention of ending its current partnerships with Amazon and Nvidia, as the company needs multiple suppliers.
In an announcement on the company’s site, Anthropic stated its commitment to a multi-platform approach: “Anthropic’s unique compute strategy focuses on a diversified approach that efficiently uses three chip platforms–Google’s TPUs, Amazon’s Trainium, and NVIDIA’s GPUs. This multi-platform approach ensures we can continue advancing Claude’s capabilities while maintaining strong partnerships across the industry. We remain committed to our partnership with Amazon, our primary training partner and cloud provider, and continue to work with the company on Project Rainier, a massive compute cluster with hundreds of thousands of AI chips across multiple U.S. data centers.”
This article originally appeared on ComputerSweden.
