Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access – Engadget

We learned earlier this month that Google and Anthropic had inked a deal that would grant the creator of the Claude AI models access to cloud servers and chips. Today, The Information reported that Anthropic has agreed to pay a staggering $200 billion to Google over the next five years.

Contracts like this, or Anthropic’s other recent multi-billion dollar arrangement with Amazon, now account for a ludicrous amount of money promised to some of the world’s largest tech companies. The…