# Google Has a Better Inference Chip. The Smarter Story Is What Anthropic Just Bet on Them.

- slug: google-has-a-better-inference-chip-the-smarter-story-is-what-anthropic-just-bet-on-them
- date: 2026-04-27
- category: Agentics

Anthropic raised $51 billion in two years. It just spent a chunk of it locking up Google infrastructure before a single new chip ships.

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