Google plans to invest $10 billion in the AI company Anthropic, and may add up to $30 billion more in the future to strengthen their collaboration. This investment will be valued at $35 billion for Anthropic, a figure that is comparable to its valuation during its funding round this February.

Previously, Anthropic successfully completed a $3 billion funding round in February, and recently also received $5 billion in investment from Amazon, with the same valuation of $35 billion, and the possibility of an additional $2 billion in the future. Anthropic has attracted widespread attention due to its AI coding tool, Claude Code, which significantly improves software development efficiency and has quickly become a popular choice among Silicon Valley engineers.

Google will provide Anthropic with 5 gigawatts of computing power over the next five years, as well as up to 1 million TPU chips to support its expansion of computing capabilities. TPU is a high-performance processor developed by Google, widely used in the AI industry. Google had previously invested about $3 billion in Anthropic, so this investment will further solidify the partnership between the two companies.

Despite the close collaboration, Google executives are concerned about Anthropic's rapid rise in the AI coding market, and the two companies may face competition in developing AI with human-level capabilities. In addition, Anthropic is facing some challenges, including legal disputes triggered by being designated as a "supply chain risk" by the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as external scrutiny of its investment and computing power transaction model with large technology companies.

Currently, Anthropic is also actively considering launching an initial public offering (IPO) in October this year to meet growing product demands.