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Google, Amazon Pump Billions into Anthropic Valued $350B

4/25/2026

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Anthropic Secures Funding

Google invested $10 billion in Anthropic at a $350 billion valuation, with up to $30 billion contingent, and pledged five gigawatts of TPU capacity.
Amazon pledged $5 billion at the same valuation, secured an option for $20 billion, and tied Anthropic’s commitment to spend over $100 billion on AWS.
Anthropic reported revenue above $30 billion, over 1,000 customers each spending more than $1 million annually, and is weighing an IPO by October.

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Claude Code Leads

Claude Code has become the leading AI coding assistant, outpacing Google’s coding AI.
Google accesses Anthropic’s Mythos model, deemed too dangerous for public release.
Venture-capital firms have offered valuations up to $800 billion, far above Anthropic’s $380 billion post-money valuation.
Over 100,000 developers build exclusively on AWS with Anthropic’s models.
Anthropic has compute agreements with Broadcom and CoreWeave and plans nearly 1 GW of Amazon chip capacity by year-end.

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Historical Context

In 2019 Microsoft committed $1 billion to OpenAI, securing Azure as its exclusive cloud platform and sparking the modern corporate-AI partnership model. The deal expanded with a $10 billion infusion announced on 23 January 2023, and by early 2026 Amazon entered advanced talks to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI, showing how cloud giants now bankroll AI startups to shape development pathways.

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Anthropic Secures Funding

Google invested $10 billion in Anthropic at a $350 billion valuation, with up to $30 billion contingent, and pledged five gigawatts of TPU capacity.
Amazon pledged $5 billion at the same valuation, secured an option for $20 billion, and tied Anthropic’s commitment to spend over $100 billion on AWS.
Anthropic reported revenue above $30 billion, over 1,000 customers each spending more than $1 million annually, and is weighing an IPO by October.

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