[Update] Anthropic Secures Gigawatts of TPU Compute from Google and Broadcom

The custom chip deal is gaining specifics. Following yesterday's Broadcom announcement, on April 6, Anthropic revealed the scale of its expanded partnership with Google.

The startup has contracted the use of "several gigawatts" of computing power based on new Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), starting in 2027. This mathematically confirms the analytics: Anthropic is preparing to train ultra-large "frontier" models comparable in resource intensity to future projects by Microsoft and OpenAI. Purchasing chips through the Google ecosystem (instead of direct dependence on NVIDIA) allows the company to optimize CAPEX and lock in a stable cost of inference for years to come.

Source: Anthropic / TechCrunch