Google has recently announced an exciting expansion of its partnership with Anthropic, a company dedicated to achieving the highest standards of AI safety.
This collaboration between Google and Anthropic has been in place since Anthropic’s founding in 2021. Over the years, the two companies have worked closely together, with Anthropic building one of the largest Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in the industry.
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, expressed his enthusiasm for the continued collaboration, stating, “Our longstanding partnership with Google is founded on a shared commitment to develop AI responsibly and deploy it in a way that benefits society. We look forward to our continued collaboration as we work to make steerable, reliable, and interpretable AI systems available to more businesses around the world.”
Anthropic relies on Google’s AlloyDB, a fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database, for handling transactional data with high performance and reliability. Additionally, Anthropic utilizes Google’s BigQuery data warehouse to analyze vast datasets and extract valuable insights for their operations.
As part of this expanded partnership, Anthropic will leverage Google’s latest generation Cloud TPU v5e chips for AI inference. These chips will enable Anthropic to efficiently scale its powerful Claude large language model, which ranks only behind GPT-4 in many benchmarks.
The announcement comes after both Google and Anthropic participated in the inaugural AI Safety Summit (AISS) at Bletchley Park, hosted by the UK government. This summit brought together government officials, technology leaders, and experts to address concerns surrounding frontier AI.
In addition to their collaboration with each other, Google and Anthropic are actively engaged in efforts with the Frontier Model Forum and MLCommons. These collaborative initiatives contribute to the development of robust measures for AI safety.
To enhance security for organizations deploying Anthropic’s models on Google Cloud, Anthropic now utilizes Google Cloud’s security services. This includes Chronicle Security Operations, Secure Enterprise Browsing, and Security Command Center, providing visibility, threat detection, and access control.
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, commented on the shared values of Anthropic and Google Cloud, stating, “Anthropic and Google Cloud share the same values when it comes to developing AI – it needs to be done in both a bold and responsible way. This expanded partnership with Anthropic – built on years of working together – will bring AI to more people safely and securely and provides another example of how the most innovative and fastest-growing AI startups are building on Google Cloud.”
The expanded partnership between Google and Anthropic represents a critical step in advancing AI safety standards and fostering responsible development.
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