Anthropic, Google, and Broadcom Partner for Next-Gen AI Chips - News Directory 3

Shares of Broadcom rose 3% in extended trading following the announcement.

Broadcom has signed a long-term agreement to produce future versions of Google's artificial intelligence chips and expanded its partnership with AI startup Anthropic to provide significant new computing capacity.

According to reporting from CNBC and Reuters on April 6, 2026, the expanded deal gives Anthropic access to approximately 3.5 gigawatts of computing capacity utilizing Google's AI processors. Broadcom's agreement with Google to develop custom AI chips extends through 2031.

Shares of Broadcom rose 3% in extended trading following the announcement.

Anthropic Financial Growth

The infrastructure expansion follows a period of rapid financial growth for Anthropic. In a blog post, the company stated that its annualized revenue has exceeded $30 billion, an increase from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Anthropic also reported that it now has more than 1,000 business clients spending over $1 million annually. This figure is double the number of such clients recorded two months prior.

Consumer adoption of the company's technology has also increased. The Claude app became the top free U.S. App in Apple's App Store in February 2026, following a public dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon.

Infrastructure and Hardware Strategy

Anthropic's chief finance officer, Krishna Rao, described the partnership as part of a disciplined approach to scaling infrastructure to meet customer growth and enable the development of the Claude AI model.

This groundbreaking partnership with Google and Broadcom is a continuation of our disciplined approach to scaling infrastructure: we are building the capacity necessary to serve the exponential growth we have seen in our customer base while also enabling Claude to define the frontier of AI development

The company intends to locate most of this new infrastructure within the United States.

Anthropic utilizes a diverse range of AI hardware to match specific workloads to the most suitable chips, including:

• Google TPUs

• AWS Trainium

• NVIDIA GPUs

Despite the expanded deal with Google and Broadcom, Reuters reports that Amazon Web Services remains the primary training partner and cloud provider for Anthropic.