(Reuters) -AI startup Anthropic is in talks with Google to secure additional computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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

Google Cloud opted for the mid-tier hardware to power its new VMs to tap the power of Nvidia’s Blackwell line without having to fork out for its higher-end chips. The hyperscaler already makes use of Nvidia’s Blackwell line with its DGX B200 and HGX B200 systems powering its Distributed Cloud Edge offering.

Anthropic is expanding its deal with Google to use as many as one million of the tech giant's artificial intelligence chips, worth tens of billions of dollars, as the startup races to advance its AI systems in the competitive market.

Anthropic is in the talks with Google about a deal that would provide the AI company with additional computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars

Google has demonstrated a 13,000 times speedup for the Quantum Echoes algorithm using its Willow quantum chip. The feat is repeatable, according to the company, and it paves the way toward real-world applications.

Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon's cloud computing service that took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat,