Google commits up to $40B to Anthropic in cash and compute

Google is reportedly planning to invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI company's expanding computing needs, according to Bloomberg. The Alphabet subsidiary has committed an initial $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with an additional $30 billion contingent on the firm achieving specific performance targets, per Anthropic.
The investment pledge follows Anthropic’s recent release of its latest model, Mythos, to a select group of partners this month. Anthropic states that Mythos is its most powerful model to date, with significant applications in cybersecurity. Due to potential misuse, the company has limited broader access while working with chosen organizations to evaluate and address those risks — though the model has already been accessed without authorization. It is also likely expensive to run at scale.
The AI race is increasingly shaped by access to the computing power needed to train and deploy these systems. OpenAI has moved aggressively to secure that capacity through a web of multi-hundred-billion-dollar deals across cloud providers, chip suppliers, and energy, including an expanded agreement with chipmaker Cerebras this month.
Anthropic has been in its own scramble. The company has faced widespread complaints about Claude usage limits in recent weeks and responded with a series of infrastructure deals. Earlier this month, Anthropic struck a deal with cloud computing provider CoreWeave for data center capacity. It also secured an additional $5 billion investment from Amazon this week, part of a broad agreement under which Anthropic is expected to spend up to $100 billion for approximately 5 gigawatts of compute capacity over time.
While Google is a direct competitor in AI models, it also serves as a key infrastructure supplier to Anthropic. Anthropic relies heavily on Google Cloud for chips and infrastructure, including access to Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs), specialized chips designed for AI workloads and considered among the best alternatives to Nvidia’s in-demand processors.
Anthropic’s relationship with Google predates this week’s news. Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a partnership with Google and chipmaker Broadcom, which designs custom AI chips for Google, to access multiple gigawatts of TPU-based computing capacity beginning in 2027; a subsequent Broadcom securities filing put that figure at 3.5 gigawatts.
The new Google investment expands that arrangement, with Google Cloud now providing an additional 5 gigawatts of capacity over the next five years, with room to scale further.
Anthropic’s valuation was $350 billion as recently as February; investors have since been eager to back the company at $800 billion or more, according to Bloomberg. The company is also reportedly considering an IPO as soon as October.
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Google is reportedly planning to invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI company's expanding computing needs, according to Bloomberg. The Alphabet subsidiary has committed an initial $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with an additional $30 billion contingent on the firm achieving specific performance targets, per Anthropic.
The investment pledge follows Anthropic’s recent release of its latest model, Mythos, to a select group of partners this month. Anthropic states that Mythos is its most powerful model to date, with significant applications in cybersecurity. Due to potential misuse, the company has limited broader access while working with chosen organizations to evaluate and address those risks — though the model has already been accessed without authorization. It is also likely expensive to run at scale.
The AI race is increasingly shaped by access to the computing power needed to train and deploy these systems. OpenAI has moved aggressively to secure that capacity through a web of multi-hundred-billion-dollar deals across cloud providers, chip suppliers, and energy, including an expanded agreement with chipmaker Cerebras this month.
Anthropic has been in its own scramble. The company has faced widespread complaints about Claude usage limits in recent weeks and responded with a series of infrastructure deals. Earlier this month, Anthropic struck a deal with cloud computing provider CoreWeave for data center capacity. It also secured an additional $5 billion investment from Amazon this week, part of a broad agreement under which Anthropic is expected to spend up to $100 billion for approximately 5 gigawatts of compute capacity over time.
While Google is a direct competitor in AI models, it also serves as a key infrastructure supplier to Anthropic. Anthropic relies heavily on Google Cloud for chips and infrastructure, including access to Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs), specialized chips designed for AI workloads and considered among the best alternatives to Nvidia’s in-demand processors.
Anthropic’s relationship with Google predates this week’s news. Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a partnership with Google and chipmaker Broadcom, which designs custom AI chips for Google, to access multiple gigawatts of TPU-based computing capacity beginning in 2027; a subsequent Broadcom securities filing put that figure at 3.5 gigawatts.
The new Google investment expands that arrangement, with Google Cloud now providing an additional 5 gigawatts of capacity over the next five years, with room to scale further.
Anthropic’s valuation was $350 billion as recently as February; investors have since been eager to back the company at $800 billion or more, according to Bloomberg. The company is also reportedly considering an IPO as soon as October.
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