Stratechery: The Anthropic-Google Alliance Is a Natural Partnership Built on Compute Dependency

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Ben Thompson's analysis frames the Anthropic-Google TPU deal as a mutual dependency play: Anthropic needs compute and Google has the most, particularly with its seventh-generation Ironwood TPU. The analysis explores Anthropic's 'computing crunch' as it scales from $9B to $30B run rate, arguing the partnership is strategically natural even as it creates questions about Anthropic's independence from its largest cloud provider and investor.