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Google announced last Friday an investment of up to 40 billion dollars in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company that created the chatbot Claude, marking the largest bet by the subsidiary of Alphabet on an external company in the tech sector.
The agreement includes an immediate disbursement of 10 billion dollars, based on a valuation of Anthropic between 350 billion and 380 billion dollars, while the remaining 30 billion dollars are contingent upon meeting operational milestones related to the development of artificial intelligence models and infrastructure scalability.
A spokesperson for Anthropic confirmed to EFE that Google is "a strategic partner and a minority investor for several years" and that the new capital injection is part of the expansion of collaboration between the two companies.
Google had previously invested around 3 billion dollars in Anthropic before this announcement.
The agreement also expands the technical collaboration between both companies, which includes the use of TPU chips and Google Cloud services, as well as the deployment of up to five gigawatts of computing capacity starting in 2027.
The paradox of the operation is that Google is developing its own artificial intelligence models under the brand Gemini, a direct competitor to Claude, making this investment an example of the cross-alliances that characterize the current tech race.
The announcement comes just days after Amazon also expanded its agreement with Anthropic: the e-commerce giant will inject $5 billion immediately and up to an additional $20 billion based on commercial targets, adding to the $8 billion it had already invested since 2023.
In return, Anthropic commits to spending over $100 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next decade, becoming the largest individual customer of that cloud platform.
With these moves, Anthropic has secured funding commitments of up to $65 billion in recent weeks, coming from various investors and infrastructure agreements.
The company, founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei along with other former members of OpenAI, reports annualized revenues exceeding 30 billion dollars by March 2026, compared to approximately 9 billion recorded at the end of last year, driven particularly by Claude Code, its artificial intelligence agent for software development.
In February 2026, Anthropic had already secured a funding round of $30 billion, which valued the company at $380 billion, with participation from Nvidia, Microsoft, BlackRock, and JPMorgan, among others.
Anthropic noted that the operation with Google takes place in a context of "reinforcing its technological infrastructure and expanding its activities," during a period of intense competition in the artificial intelligence sector against rivals like OpenAI.
There is speculation about a potential IPO for Anthropic with valuations that could exceed $800 billion, which would make it one of the most valuable technology companies in the world despite never having traded on public markets.
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