Google stakes up to $40B on Anthropic, doubling down on the cloud it rents
Your daily AI news digest AI the News That's Fit to PromptVol. I · Saturday, April 25, 2026 · Issue No. 35 · 12 Stories |
AI Economics Google Stakes Up to $40B on Anthropic, Doubling Down on the Cloud It RentsGoogle plans to commit up to $40 billion in fresh capital and compute to Anthropic, with $10 billion landing now at a reported $350 billion valuation and the remaining $30 billion gated on performance milestones. The deal lands one day after Amazon's own $5B-for-$100B-cloud commitment. Two of the three biggest cloud providers are now strapping their balance sheets to a single lab, even as that lab spends most of its capital training models on their silicon. |
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