Overview
- Reporting indicates the prospective agreement would have Google provide additional cloud capacity to support Anthropic’s AI models.
- The discussions are characterized as early and subject to change, and both companies declined to comment.
- Any pact would deepen Google’s existing ties to Anthropic after roughly $3 billion of prior investments, while Amazon has also invested and supplied computing power.
- Anthropic’s recent financing round reflects the escalating costs of training and deploying large language models at scale.
- Alphabet shares rose after the talks surfaced, and Anthropic has been reported to target a $9 billion annual revenue run rate by the end of 2025.