en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 24, local time, AI safety and research company Anthropic officially announced that Google has committed to a new investment of up to $40 billion. Under the agreement, Google will initially inject $10 billion in cash and retains the right to invest up to an additional $30 billion upon Anthropic meeting specific future performance targets. Notably, this investment values Anthropic at $350 billion, consistent with its valuation during a funding round in February, and excludes any additional financing raised recently. Anthropic's official statement also indicates that the new capital will not only be used for general business operations but will also focus on significantly expanding its computing capacity to develop next-generation advanced AI models and procuring Google's latest generation of TPU chips.
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, stated that the long-term deep collaboration with Google stems from a shared commitment to the long-term goal of building secure, interpretable, and controllable AI systems, noting that this investment will help the company accelerate the R&D and iteration of various cutting-edge AI models. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, pointed out that Anthropic is rapidly emerging as one of the industry's leading developers of cutting-edge AI models, and collaborations in fields such as autonomous driving, protein folding, climate simulation, and materials science have already demonstrated the significant potential of advanced AI to empower scientific research and major industrial transformations across disciplines.
According to supplementary details released by Anthropic on its official website on the same day, Google's initial $10 billion investment is equity financing, while the subsequent $30 billion is explicitly a computing support commitment tied to performance milestones. The statement emphasizes that "the combined investment and computing power will give Anthropic more control over its development path than ever before," including Anthropic's insistence on operational control and a multi-cloud strategy. Anthropic reaffirmed that its Claude series models will continue to be widely available on Google Cloud and other major cloud service providers to ensure customer choice diversity. This is not only a commercial commitment but also aligns with its principle of "public safety and responsible scaling"—that offering key technologies should avoid single points of dependency to spread risk.
On the capital operations front, Anthropic is experiencing explosive growth. According to PitchBook data, its annualized revenue earlier this year has surpassed $30 billion, and the company has continuously completed multiple massive funding rounds. In addition to Google, Anthropic recently announced an expanded strategic cooperation with Amazon earlier this month, with the latter committing to invest over $100 billion in procuring its Trainium chips and AWS services over the next decade. Industry observers widely view Google's massive investment as a key move to further solidify ties with core technology partners and build a long-term competitive moat amidst intensifying competition in cloud computing AI.
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