Google and Anthropic have announced that they are extending their relationship in an effort to raise the bar for AI safety.
Google and Anthropic have been working together since Anthropic was established in 2021. Together, the two businesses have worked closely to develop one of the biggest Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in the business, which was done by Anthropic.
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, stated, “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 are eager to keep working together to help more businesses worldwide have access to steerable, dependable, and interpretable AI systems.”
Anthropic uses Google’s fully managed AlloyDB, a PostgreSQL-compatible database, to handle transactional data with a high level of dependability and performance. Furthermore, enormous datasets are analyzed using Google’s BigQuery data warehouse in order to obtain insightful information that is crucial for Anthropic’s operations.
Anthropic will use Google’s most recent Cloud TPU v5e chips for AI inference as part of the expanded relationship. With the chips, Anthropic will be able to scale its powerful Claude big language model—which trails only GPT-4 in several benchmarks—efficiently.
Following both businesses’ participation in the first AI Safety Summit (AISS) at Bletchley Park, which was organized by the UK government, an announcement was made. To discuss issues regarding frontier AI, government representatives, tech executives, and specialists convened at the summit.
Additionally, Google and Anthropic are working together with MLCommons and the Frontier Model Forum to build strong safety protocols for AI.
Anthropic is now leveraging the security services offered by Google Cloud to improve security for companies that are implementing its models on the cloud. This offers visibility, threat detection, and access management. It consists of Security Command Center, Secure Enterprise Browsing, and Chronicle Security Operations.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian stated, “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, which is based on years of collaboration, will safely and securely make AI available to more people. It also offers another illustration of how the most creative and rapidly expanding AI startups are utilizing Google Cloud.”
The increased collaboration between Google and Anthropic looks to be a significant step toward promoting responsible research and raising the bar for AI safety.
