{"id":9,"date":"2026-04-25T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aitrendstoday.online\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:56:21","slug":"google-looking-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic-their-ai-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Google looking to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, their AI competitor."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Google-parent Alphabet will invest up to $40 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/\">Anthropic<\/a>, as the tech giant deepens \u200bits partnership with the artificial intelligence startup that is also its rival \u200cin the global AI race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic said on Friday that Google has committed $10 billion now in cash at a valuation of $350 billion to help support a major expansion of \u200bits computing capacity, and will invest $30 billion more if the Claude maker \u200bmeets performance targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investment comes just days after e-commerce giant \u2060Amazon said it will invest up to $25 billion in the startup, which has managed \u200bto stand out in the crowded AI industry by focusing its model \u200btraining on coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code tool has gained strong traction among developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company&#8217;s annual run-rate revenue surpassed $30 billion this month, up from about $9 billion at the end \u200bof 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The startup raised $30 billion in a funding round in February that \u200bvalued it at $380 billion post-money amid massive investor interest, and has drawn offers from \u200cventure \u2060capital firms valuing it at as much as $800 billion, according to media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HUNT FOR COMPUTING POWER<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strong demand for its Claude family of AI models has prompted Anthropic to sign several major deals recently to acquire more computing \u200bcapacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, \u200bit struck multi-year \u2060deals with chipmaker Broadcom and cloud infrastructure firm CoreWeave, and is also set to secure nearly 1 gigawatt of capacity \u200bvia Amazon&#8217;s chips by year-end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, Anthropic had said it \u200bwould invest $50 billion \u2060to build data centers in the U.S. to secure infrastructure to deploy and train its models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, a series of plugin releases for \u2060Anthropic&#8217;s \u200bCowork agent sparked a brutal selloff in global \u200bsoftware stocks as investors weighed the disruptive potential of sophisticated AI tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Google-parent Alphabet will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, as the &hellip; <a title=\"Google looking to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, their AI competitor.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/?p=9\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google looking to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, their AI competitor.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-ai-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temobile.cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}