(Bloomberg/Dina Bass and Emily Forgash) — In an AI chip industry that’s almost entirely commanded by Nvidia Corp., a Google chip first developed more than 10 years ago especially for artificial intelligence tasks is finally gaining momentum outside its home company as a way to train and run complex AI models.

Anthropic PBC on Thursday unveiled a deal with Alphabet Inc.’s Google to supply the artificial intelligence startup with more than a gigawatt of additional computing power, valued in the tens of billions of dollars. The agreement gives Anthropic access to as many as 1 million of Google’s tensor processing units, or TPUs — the company’s chips that are custom designed to accelerate machine learning workloads — and expands its use of the internet giant’s cloud services.

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