Google Doubles Down on Anthropic With New $40 Billion Investment

Anthropic and Google confirmed Friday (April 24) that Google is investing $40 billion in the artificial intelligence startup to support its continued growth.

Google invested $10 billion Friday at Anthropic’s current valuation and plans to invest another $30 billion in the future, contingent upon meeting performance milestones, Anthropic told PYMNTS.

Google has been a strategic partner and minority investor in Anthropic for several years, and Anthropic recently expanded its use of TPU chips and Google Cloud services, with 5GW of capacity to come online starting in 2027, according to Anthropic.

Bloomberg reported earlier Friday that Google invested the initial $10 billion announced Friday at a $350 billionvaluation, which is the same valuation it achieved in a funding round in February.

Reached by PYMNTS, Google confirmed the Bloomberg report.

On Monday (April 20), Anthropic and Amazon announced that Amazon would invest another $5 billion in Anthropic on that day and up to an additional $20 billion in the future, depending upon certain commercial milestones. These investments join the $8 billion Amazon already invested in Anthropic.

The companies also announced an expanded partnership in which Anthropic has committed to spend over $100 billion over the next 10 years on Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, including Trainium and Graviton hardware, and AWS customers will be able to access the full Anthropic-native Claude console from within AWS.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a Monday press release that Anthropic needs to build infrastructure to keep up with growing demand for Claude as people find the platform increasingly essential to their work.

“Our collaboration with Amazon will allow us to continue advancing AI research while delivering Claude to our customers, including the more than 100,000 building on AWS,” Amodei said.

On April 6, Anthropic announced that it signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of TPU capacity that the AI startup expects to start coming online in 2027.

Anthropic said that deal marked a major expansion of the company’s November 2025 commitment to invest $50 billion in American computing infrastructure. Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao said in an April 6 press release that the agreement would help the AI startup “keep pace with our unprecedented growth.”