By Tripp Mickle
Publication Date: 2026-04-24 18:06:00
Google has committed to invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic, the companies said on Friday, as the artificial intelligence start-up accelerates its business behind the explosive growth of its software programming product, Claude Code.
The deal is the latest in a series of huge investments that tech giants have made in the top A.I. start-ups, OpenAI and Anthropic. Last week, Amazon agreed to invest as much as $25 billion in Anthropic.
Google will invest $10 billion in cash now at a $350 billion valuation, which is the same value Anthropic had in February. The other $30 billion in cash will be invested when Anthropic meets certain milestones.
Google and Anthropic confirmed the investment commitment but declined to comment further.
Google and Amazon began backing Anthropic in its infancy and have become two of its largest minority investors. Anthropic relies on Google and Amazon for the cloud computing it needs to build and run its Claude chatbot and coding systems. The start-up has…
