GOOGLE AND ANTHROPIC ANNOUNCE CLOUD DEAL WORTH TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

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Anthropic now has access to up to a million of Google's custom-designed Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) thanks to a new deal worth tens of billions of dollars. The deal is expected to bring well over a gigawatt of AI compute capacity online in 2026. Anthropic spreads its workloads across vendors, letting it fine-tune for price, performance, and power constraints. Google's TPUs offer Anthropic strong price-performance and efficiency.