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Anthropic and Google Cloud strike blockbuster AI chips deal

Agreement between Claude chatbot maker and one of its largest investors will add to start-up’s computing firepower

Anthropic has reached a deal to secure access to 1mn Google Cloud chips to train and run its artificial intelligence models, increasing its ties to one of its largest investors.

Google, which has invested more than $3bn in Anthropic, will bring more than a gigawatt of AI computing capacity online for the start-up next year using its custom chips known as Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs. 

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