Anthropic partners with Google to train its AI chatbot; to use Tensor AI chips

Claude AI-maker Anthropic has expanded its deal with Google, giving it access to up to one million of Google’s custom-designed Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. In an official announcement, the company said the partnership will dramatically expand its compute resources.

“The expansion is worth tens of billions of dollars and is expected to bring well over a gigawatt of capacity online in 2026,” Anthropic said.“Anthropic’s choice to significantly expand its usage of TPUs reflects the strong price-performance and efficiency its teams have seen with TPUs for several years,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud. “We are continuing to innovate and drive further efficiencies and increased capacity of our TPUs, building on our already mature AI accelerator portfolio, including our seventh generation TPU, Ironwood.”Anthropic cited better cost efficiency, strong performance, and Google’s prior experience with the processors as the reason for using Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for training and running its Claude AI models.The deal highlights the growing global demand for high-performance chips, as tech companies race to build AI systems that can rival or even exceed human intelligence.As part of the partnership, Google — which offers its TPUs through Google Cloud — will also provide Anthropic with additional cloud computing support.

These TPUs are seen as an alternative to Nvidia’s in-demand chips, which remain in short supply.In a related news, Anthropic is releasing an update for Claude that will let the AI chatbot “remember” past conversations without prompting. Available to all paid subscribers, the upgrade allows users to turn on Claude’s “memory” in their settings. The feature enables Claude in remembering details from previous chats. It is important to state that Memory is an opt-in feature that can be turned on in Claude's settings. There are options for "search and reference chats" and "generate memory from chat history."