Anthropic expands Google Cloud partnership and launches Claude memory for enterprise
Anthropic has announced a major expansion of its Google Cloud TPU infrastructure alongside the rollout of memory for Claude Pro and Max users, marking a significant step in its effort to scale compute power and enhance the usability of its AI assistant.
Expanding Google Cloud partnership
The AI research company, known for developing the Claude family of models, plans to secure around one million Google TPUs by 2026, representing an investment worth tens of billions of dollars. The expansion will provide more than a gigawatt of capacity to support Anthropic’s growing AI workloads.
Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud, says: “Anthropic’s choice to significantly expand its usage of TPUs reflects the strong price-performance and efficiency its teams have seen with TPUs for several years. We are continuing to innovate and drive further efficiencies and increased capacity of our TPUs, building on our already mature AI accelerator portfolio, including our seventh generation TPU, Ironwood.”
Anthropic currently serves more than 300,000 business customers, with large accounts — those generating over $100,000 in annualized revenue — increasing nearly sevenfold in the past year. The company said the additional compute will help meet rising customer demand while supporting “more thorough testing, alignment research, and responsible deployment at scale.”
Krishna Rao, Chief Financial Officer at Anthropic, comments: “Anthropic and Google have a longstanding partnership and this latest expansion will help us continue to grow the compute we need to define the frontier of AI. Our customers—from Fortune 500 companies to AI-native startups—depend on Claude for their most important work, and this expanded capacity ensures we can meet our exponentially growing demand while keeping our models at the cutting edge of the industry.”
Anthropic’s compute strategy remains diversified, combining Google’s TPUs with Amazon’s Trainium and NVIDIA GPUs to maintain flexibility and scale across multiple partners.
Claude memory rollout for work
Anthropic has also launched memory for Claude, enabling the AI assistant to retain context across sessions and projects. The feature is now available to Pro and Max plan users, as shared by Scott White, Product Lead at Anthropic, in a LinkedIn post.
White wrote: “Today we’re launching memory for Claude subscribers. Your ideas now compound across sessions. Projects develop depth. Context accumulates to support increasingly sophisticated problem-solving.”
The new capability allows Claude to remember project details, client needs, and team preferences between sessions, helping users avoid re-explaining context in ongoing work. Enterprise administrators can disable memory for their organizations, and users can view, edit, or delete stored information through the settings panel.
Anthropic said the feature was designed with privacy in mind, introducing Incognito Chat for conversations not saved to memory or conversation history.
The company described memory as “built for work,” focusing on professional use cases such as managing client relationships, tracking product development, and maintaining project context across teams.
