Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

wwslh about 3 hours ago 2 commentsRead Article on reuters.com

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htrp•about 2 hours ago

> Google is committing $10 billion now in cash at a $350 billion valuation and will invest a further $30 billion if Anthropic meets performance targets, the report said.

How much of this goes back to Google as cloud spend?

dmk•about 2 hours ago

Google investing $40bn in a company that competes directly with Gemini is one of those moves that only makes sense if you think of it as buying compute customers, not backing a competitor. Anthropic pays Google for TPUs and Cloud services, a big chunk of this investment surely has to flow right back to Google.