Google and Anthropic deepen partnership with specialized computer chips for AI inference

Google is strengthening its partnership with AI startup Anthropic by providing specialized computer chips to enhance its capabilities. This partnership is backed by a significant financial investment from Google, including a 10% stake acquisition for $300 million and additional funding totaling $500 million, with a promise of $1.5 billion in further investments. Anthropic will use Google Cloud's fifth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to perform AI inference, which could provide a compelling advantage for startups like Anthropic that rely on massive volumes of data to refine their models. However, OpenAI's recent advancements, particularly the GPT-4 Turbo, challenge Anthropic's prior dominance with Claude's 100K capabilities.（decrypt）