Hey tech fam! 🎉
Anthropic just inked a mega deal with Google to tap up to 1 million of its in-house AI chips—TPUs—to power the next-gen Claude chatbot. This is a huge leap in the AI arms race! 🚀
Under the deal, coming online in 2026, Anthropic gets over one gigawatt of compute power. To put it simply, that’s like charging a small city’s worth of AI tasks at once! ⚡️
TPUs, or tensor processing units, are custom-built for AI and shine in price and energy efficiency. Anthropic already knows these chips inside out, so it makes sense to double down on what works best.
Google’s TPUs are available on Google Cloud as an alternative to the super-hot Nvidia GPUs. Plus, Google is throwing in extra cloud services to keep Claude running smooth.
For a sense of scale, rival OpenAI has snapped up deals for roughly 26 gigawatts—an investment north of $1 trillion! That level of compute could power about 20 million U.S. homes. Mind-blowing, right? 🤯
Here in South and Southeast Asia, AI is already a game-changer—from Grab’s route optimization to chatbots on your favorite shopping apps. This beefed-up compute could spark fresh innovations in everything from finance to e-gaming. 🎮💡
Anthropic’s focus on AI safety and enterprise-grade models makes Claude a go-to for startups and big players alike. Keep an eye on vibe-coding stars like Cursor—they’re already riding this AI wave.
Stay tuned as we watch the AI landscape evolve—there’s no slowing down this high-speed chase! 🌏✨
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
