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AI·

Google is putting up to $40B into Anthropic. That's five days after Amazon's $5B.

Google committed $10B upfront and up to $40B total at a $350B valuation, plus five gigawatts of Google Cloud capacity. It's Anthropic's second nine-figure deal in a week.

Two Google TPU 8 chips, the 8t training and 8i inference variants, rendered side by side with the Axion branding
Hardware·

Google splits its AI chip: the TPU 8t trains, the TPU 8i serves, and Axion handles the rest

At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled TPU 8t and TPU 8i, an 8th-generation split that matches Nvidia on agentic inference. Ironwood hit GA the same day.