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Google (Alphabet subsidiary)

In the AI Economy Index: counts toward Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet business that provides internet products, AI models and Google Cloud infrastructure.

DirectCloud & compute
What it does

Alphabet business that provides internet products, AI models and Google Cloud infrastructure.

Why it matters

It both rents NVIDIA GPUs to customers and designs its own competing TPU chips, giving it a unique dual role in the AI hardware market.

How it makes money

Sells cloud computing, advertising, and other internet services; increasingly sells AI infrastructure and models.

Geography

United States

AI stack position

Cloud and specialized AI compute providers. The companies that buy up AI infrastructure and rent out computing power to AI developers and businesses. This is how most companies access AI computing without building their own data centers.

What would change our view

Our view would change if Alphabet itself published the terms of Google's reported commitment of up to $40 billion to Anthropic; neither company has published them, and Alphabet's filings do not name it. It would also change if renting or supplying TPUs to other companies, such as Anthropic under its confirmed agreements and Meta under a reported one, were disclosed as material to revenue. Any payment under the backstops Alphabet has given for third-party data centers, or further growth in them, would change it too: its 10-Q shows about $43.8 billion at 30 June 2026, up from $16.9 billion at the end of 2025.

Things anyone could observe that would change how this map describes the company. They are not forecasts, and they are not a view on the company's securities.

Source: Alphabet Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 30 June 2026 (filed 23 July 2026) ↗

Connections (46)

Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.

Current relationships (19)

Starcloud ran a Google model on Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Uses technology fromCurrent
Starcloud said its Starcloud-1 satellite achieved the first training of an AI model in space and ran Google's Gemini in orbit.

Source: 2026-08-21 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: A company claim about a technical demonstration. It does not establish a commercial agreement with Google, any licensing terms, which model variant or size was used, or that the demonstration produced a usable service.

Starcloud Raises $250 Million at $2.3 Billion Valuation to Scale AI with Orbital Data Centers ↗
Marvell Technology co-develops custom silicon with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Co-develops withCurrent
Marvell's SEC 8-K discloses a commercial agreement, signed July 29, 2026, for custom silicon programs that attach to Google's TPU ecosystem, including AI inference accelerators, storage controllers, network interface controllers, memory interface controllers and near-memory compute products.

Source: 2026-08-19 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Describes the scope of custom-silicon products covered by the agreement; does not establish current shipping volumes or which products have already been delivered.

Marvell Technology, Inc. Form 8-K (August 19, 2026) ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) joined the High Bandwidth Flash consortium with Sandisk
Partners withCurrent
Sandisk's release on the High Bandwidth Flash specification said Google joined as a consortium member during the HBF standardization work that began in February 2026.

Source: 2026-08-03 · reviewed 2026-09-26

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Consortium membership reported

Limits: Consortium membership only; does not establish that Google buys, has committed to buy, or will deploy HBF products from Sandisk.

Sandisk and SK hynix Advance Global Standardization of High Bandwidth Flash with Release of First OCP Technical Specification ↗
Google DeepMind trains models on Google Cloud's TPU infrastructure Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Uses technology fromCurrent
Google's own infrastructure teams describe Gemini models as trained and served on Google Cloud's custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware.

Source: 2026-04-22 · reviewed 2026-09-27

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not establish exclusivity of TPU use, the exact scale of infrastructure dedicated to Gemini, or any commercial payment flow between the two entities.

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era ↗
Elastic partners with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withCurrent
Elastic said it won a 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year award and is natively integrated into Google Vertex AI as a grounding engine for Gemini.

Source: 2026-04-21 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Partner award and integration description from Elastic's release; does not establish revenue through Google Cloud Marketplace or any exclusivity.

Elastic Wins 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Marketplace Category for Data Management & AI ↗
Celestica manufactures data-center hardware for Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Manufactures forCurrent
Celestica's FY2025 annual report lists Google among the customers of its Connectivity & Cloud Solutions segment.

Source: 2026-02-27 · reviewed 2026-09-26

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating (FY2025)

Limits: A customer-list mention only; does not say which products Celestica builds for Google, revenue attributable to Google, contract length, or exclusivity. The filing names 10%-plus customers only by percentage, not by name.

Celestica Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) provides cloud computing and GPUs to ElevenLabs
Provides computing capacity toCurrent
ElevenLabs partners with Google Cloud for cloud services and access to NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, and was named Google Cloud's 2026 Applied AI Partner of the Year.

Source: 2026-02-26 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not disclose contract value, exclusivity, or the proportion of ElevenLabs' total compute that runs on Google Cloud.

ElevenLabs Partners with Google Cloud for Cloud Services and the Latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs ↗
Vantor runs Google AI models inside Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Uses technology fromCurrent
Vantor said Google Earth AI imagery models are integrated into its Tensorglobe platform for use in sovereign, on-premises and air-gapped government environments, and that customers can refine those models with their own data.

Source: 2026-02-19 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Reported operating

Limits: Establishes a stated product integration available to Vantor's government customers. It does not establish revenue, the number of customers using it, the commercial terms with Google, or any exclusivity in either direction.

Vantor Expands TensorGlobe With Google Earth AI Integration ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) invested in Apptronik
Invested inCurrent
Apptronik named Google among the repeat investors in a Series A totalling more than 935 million dollars, announced on 11 February 2026.

Source: 2026-02-11 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Apptronik's own release. It does not state which Alphabet entity invested, the amount, the stake acquired, or any governance rights.

Apptronik Closes Over $935 Million Series A ↗
Anthropic distributes Claude models through Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Publishes throughCurrent
Google Cloud said Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 are generally available on Vertex AI and can also be bought through Google Cloud Marketplace.

Source: 2026-02-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Establishes availability of two named models on one date only. It does not establish usage volumes, revenue split between Anthropic and Google, or that later Claude models are on Vertex AI.

Expanding Vertex AI with Claude Opus 4.6 ↗
Qualcomm partners with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withCurrent
Qualcomm and Google announced an expanded partnership at CES 2026 to integrate Android Automotive software with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Digital Chassis, aimed at automaker infotainment and AI features.

Source: 2026-01-05 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Reported operating

Limits: Describes an automotive software/AI collaboration only; does not establish revenue sharing, exclusivity, or extend to Qualcomm's other product lines.

Qualcomm's 'Digital Chassis' is Reinventing the Car—And Google is Helping ↗
Hugging Face integrates open models with Google Cloud infrastructure Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withCurrent
Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a partnership integrating Hugging Face models into Vertex AI, GKE and Cloud Run, adding native TPU support and a CDN gateway for model/dataset caching.

Source: 2025-11-13 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Active as of joint announcement

Limits: Confirms technical/product integration; does not establish revenue, exclusivity, or investment between the companies.

Building for an Open Future - our new partnership with Google Cloud ↗
TSMC manufactures chips for Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Manufactures forCurrent
Industry reporting indicates Google's first Arm-based CPU, Axion, is built on TSMC's 3nm process with ASIC design support from GUC (Global Unichip).

Source: 2025-10-21 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported operating

Limits: Does not confirm volumes or exclusivity; TSMC does not comment on individual customers and this is based on supply-chain analyst reporting.

Google's First Arm-Based CPU Axion Reportedly Built on TSMC 3nm with GUC Design Support ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) provides Google Cloud computing infrastructure to Isomorphic Labs
Provides computing capacity toCurrent
A Google Cloud blog post describes Isomorphic Labs using Google Cloud machine-learning infrastructure to run its drug-discovery AI models.

Source: 2024-08-28 · reviewed 2026-09-27

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Active infrastructure relationship

Limits: Confirms use of Google Cloud infrastructure as described in a Google-published case study; does not disclose contract value or whether Isomorphic Labs also uses other compute providers.

How Isomorphic Labs uses machine learning models to explore new frontiers in drug discovery ↗
Mistral AI publishes models through Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Publishes throughCurrent
Google Cloud became the first hyperscaler to offer Mistral AI's Codestral, Mistral Large 2 and Mistral Nemo models as fully managed services on Vertex AI Model Garden.

Source: 2024-07-24 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not establish exclusivity going forward; Mistral models are also distributed on AWS Bedrock and Azure.

Codestral and Mistral Large V2 on Vertex AI ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) participated in Harvey's Series C round via Google Ventures Harvey
Invested inCurrent
Harvey's own announcement states its Series C round included investment from Google Ventures alongside OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and SV Angel.

Source: 2024-07-23 · reviewed 2026-09-27

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Completed funding round

Limits: Confirms participation in a funding round; does not disclose investment amount or resulting ownership percentage, and Google Ventures is a separate investing arm from Google's operating business.

Harvey Raises Series C from Google Ventures, OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and SV Angel ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) invested in Tempus's Series G-2 round Tempus AI
Invested inCurrent
Tempus announced a $200 million Series G-2 financing in December 2020 that included investment from Google, at a post-money valuation of $8.1 billion.

Source: 2020-12-10 · reviewed 2026-09-27

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Completed pre-IPO funding round

Limits: Confirms Google's participation in a funding round; does not disclose the investment amount attributable to Google specifically or Google's resulting ownership percentage after Tempus's 2024 IPO.

Tempus Announces $200 Million Series G-2 Financing ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) offers cloud virtual machines using NVIDIA
Uses technology fromCurrent
Google Compute Engine currently lists virtual machines using multiple NVIDIA GPU models.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Product documented

Limits: Product catalog evidence; availability varies. Google also offers its own TPUs.

Google Compute Engine GPUs ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) is an Alphabet subsidiary, represented on this map via the Google node Isomorphic Labs
OwnsCurrent
Isomorphic Labs was spun out of Google DeepMind in 2021 and operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Active ownership

Limits: Confirms Isomorphic Labs' status as an Alphabet-owned subsidiary; this map represents Alphabet through its Google node, so the relationship is shown as sourced from Google rather than a separate Alphabet Inc. entity.

Isomorphic Labs ↗

Dated or announced (21)

American Electric Power (AEP) agreed to supply power to Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
SuppliesDated / announced
AEP said on 14 October 2026 that Google will take power for 20 years from a planned 702 MW fuel cell plant near Cheyenne, Wyoming, which AEP majority-owns and plans to have fully running by the end of 2028.

Source: 2026-10-14 · reviewed 2026-10-14

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Agreement announced; construction planned to start in 2026; full operation expected by the end of 2028, not yet operating

Limits: AEP gave the plant's size, cost, contract length and timing, but not the PPA price or how much of Google's planned Cheyenne load it covers. The plant is planned, not built: construction is due to start in 2026, with full operation by the end of 2028. Google and Bloom Energy did not issue their own releases that we found. The plant runs on fuel cells, which usually use natural gas; AEP's carbon capture plans are plans only. Share-price moves excluded.

AEP Advances Innovative Energy Solution for Google with 702MW of Bloom Fuel Cells ↗
Constellation Energy agreed to supply power to Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
SuppliesDated / announced
Constellation and Google announced a 20-year power purchase agreement on 6 Oct 2026 for 890 MW of new nuclear capacity from uprates at 11 Constellation reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, plus a 15-year energy supply agreement for an additional 2,700 MW in PJM (Constellation release, 6 Oct 2026).

Source: 2026-10-06 · reviewed 2026-10-06

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Contract announced

Limits: Contract value, price per MWh and Google's payment terms were not disclosed; the $4.3 billion is Constellation's own investment, not the value of the PPA. The 890 MW arrives in phases: the first uprate is expected by 2028 and Google says all of it before the end of 2032. Uprates that raise licensed power need NRC approval. The release does not name the 11 units or six sites. The 2,700 MW 15-year agreement is a financial supply arrangement for existing output, not new capacity. The new-generation framework is exploratory and commits to no projects. Jobs figures are company estimates. Share-price moves excluded.

Google and Constellation Announce Landmark Agreement to Bring 890 MW of New Nuclear Capacity to PJM Grid as Part of Long-Term Power Deal ↗
Wipro expanded an AI partnership with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withDated / announced
Wipro said it expanded its Google Cloud partnership to integrate Gemini Enterprise into its AI platforms and has deployed Gemini Enterprise internally as its central agentic orchestration platform.

Source: 2026-08-27 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: Partnership announcement; does not establish contract value, revenue to either party, or client adoption.

Wipro and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Scale AI into Core Enterprise Operations ↗
Marvell Technology supplying custom semiconductors across Google's TPU infrastructure stack Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
SuppliesDated / announced
Marvell and Google disclosed an expanded custom-silicon agreement under which Marvell will supply semiconductors -- including AI inference accelerators, storage, network and memory interface controllers -- across Google's TPU infrastructure, with a warrant tied to up to $120 billion of future Marvell custom-product purchases by Google.

Source: 2026-08-19 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Long-term supply and warrant agreement disclosed via securities filing; revenue-tied vesting runs through fiscal 2033

Limits: Reporting describes contract scope and a warrant structure tied to future purchase milestones; it does not confirm current shipped volumes, exclusivity, or that the $120B ceiling reflects committed (vs. maximum potential) spend.

Google expands Marvell partnership for custom AI chips ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) invested in Marvell Technology
Invested inDated / announced
As part of the expanded custom-silicon agreement, Google received warrants for up to 58,970,907 Marvell shares at $206.58 per share (full exercise value about $12.18 billion), vesting on a mix of time-based and revenue-based tranches tied to purchases of Marvell's custom products through fiscal 2033.

Source: 2026-08-19 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced

Limits: The warrant's performance tranches vest only as Google's custom-product purchases from Marvell hit revenue thresholds; the $12.18 billion figure is the maximum exercise value, not a current ownership stake or money already paid.

Marvell Technology, Inc. Form 8-K (August 19, 2026) ↗
SpaceX sells GPU compute capacity to Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Provides computing capacity toDated / announced
SpaceX agreed on 5 June 2026 to give Google access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs of compute capacity at its Colossus data centers for $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029, with capacity ramping up through September at a reduced fee, per SpaceX's SEC filing. If SpaceX does not deliver the committed GPUs by 30 September 2026, Google may, after a one-month grace period, end the agreement or accept fewer GPUs at a pro rata lower fee; after 31 December 2026 either party may end it on 90 days' notice.

Source: 2026-06-05 · reviewed 2026-09-27

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Active contract disclosed in SpaceX's SEC filing; includes a 30 September 2026 GPU delivery deadline and a 90-day termination right for either party after 31 December 2026

Limits: The filing sets out the terms, not delivery. As of 27 September 2026 neither company has said whether the committed GPUs were delivered by the 30 September deadline. Because either side can exit on 90 days' notice after 31 December 2026, the October 2026–June 2029 term, and the roughly $29 billion it would imply, is not guaranteed.

SpaceX free writing prospectus (Rule 433) filed 5 June 2026: Cloud Service Agreement with Google ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) invested in Anthropic
Invested inDated / announced
Google agreed to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, $10 billion in cash at a $350 billion valuation and a further $30 billion if Anthropic meets performance targets, according to reports first published by Bloomberg on 24 April 2026 that attribute the terms to Anthropic. Neither company has published the terms, and Alphabet's filings do not name the investment. Separately, Anthropic has confirmed an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of TPU capacity from 2027.

Source: 2026-04-24 · reviewed 2026-09-27

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Historical / announced

Limits: Does not establish that the full $40 billion has been paid -- $30 billion is explicitly conditional on Anthropic meeting undisclosed performance targets -- and neither company has published its own joint statement confirming all terms.

Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets ↗
Broadcom co-developing and supplying Google's TPUs through 2031 Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Co-develops withDated / announced
Broadcom and Google extended their long-standing collaboration in which Broadcom co-designs and helps manufacture Google's custom TPU chips, with the arrangement now running through 2031.

Source: 2026-04-06 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Extended multi-year co-development and supply arrangement disclosed via securities filing and press reporting

Limits: Reporting on a securities disclosure describes contract duration and scope; it does not itself state unit volumes, dollar value, or exclusivity of the TPU relationship.

Broadcom agrees to expanded chip deals with Google, Anthropic ↗
Anthropic runs Claude workloads on TPUs from Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Google Cloud said Anthropic is expanding its use of Google-built TPUs, an expansion that will provide Anthropic with multiple gigawatts of TPU capacity expected to come online starting in 2027.

Source: 2026-04-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: The multi-gigawatt expansion is an announcement with capacity dated from 2027; it does not establish how many TPUs Anthropic uses today, what Anthropic pays, or that any of the new capacity has been built.

Anthropic Expands Use of Google Cloud and TPUs ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) provides computing capacity to Meta Platforms
Provides computing capacity toDated / announced
Google and Meta reportedly struck a multi-billion-dollar deal for Meta to rent Google Cloud TPUs starting in 2026, with the possibility of outright TPU purchases in 2027.

Source: 2026-02-26 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Historical / announced

Limits: Neither Google nor Meta has issued its own confirming press release; deal terms and exact dollar value rest on reporting citing unnamed sources, and the arrangement covers future 2026-2027 deployment, not current delivered capacity.

Google and Meta reportedly strike new, multibillion-dollar AI chip deal ↗
Teradata sells AI agents through the marketplace of Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withDated / announced
Teradata said its Data Analyst AI agent is available on Google Cloud Marketplace and built with Google's Agent Development Kit, with a Google Cloud managing director quoted.

Source: 2026-02-04 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: Marketplace listing announcement; does not establish sales through the marketplace or revenue.

Teradata Brings Enterprise-Grade AI Agents to Google Cloud Marketplace ↗
Honeywell Technologies builds a retail AI platform on Google Cloud's Gemini with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Honeywell launched an AI-enabled Smart Shopping Platform with Google Cloud and 66degrees that uses Google's Gemini and Vertex AI.

Source: 2026-01-11 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: Product launch announcement; does not establish customer deployments, spending on Google Cloud, or exclusivity.

Honeywell Unveils AI-Enabled Technology to Personalize In-store Shopping with Google Cloud ↗
NextEra Energy partners to supply power capacity to Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withDated / announced
NextEra Energy and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership to develop at least three gigawatt-scale data-center energy campuses and explore new power technologies for AI growth.

Source: 2025-12-08 · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced partnership

Limits: Development-stage partnership for future campuses; not evidence of power currently being delivered or a specific contract value.

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud announce landmark strategic energy and technology partnership ↗
NextEra Energy supplies generation capacity to Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
SuppliesDated / announced
NextEra Energy will provide power generation and capacity to support new gigawatt-scale Google Cloud AI data center campuses across the US, with the first three campuses in development, under a strategic energy and technology partnership announced December 8, 2025.

Source: 2025-12-08 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced / planned

Limits: Does not establish contracted MW volumes, pricing, delivered capacity, or completion dates for the campuses; distinct from the companies' separate AI grid-software collaboration.

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud Announce Landmark Strategic Energy and Technology Partnership to Accelerate AI Growth and Transform the Energy Industry ↗
Planet Labs is building prototype satellites for Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Manufactures forDated / announced
Planet said it will build and operate two prototype satellites for Google's Project Suncatcher, designed to test Google's Tensor Processing Units in space and fly in tandem with high-bandwidth optical cross-links, targeting launch in early 2027.

Source: 2025-11-04 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: An announced research collaboration with a future launch date. It does not disclose the contract value, does not establish that any spacecraft has been built or launched, and does not establish that Google will proceed beyond two prototypes.

Planet to Build and Operate Advanced Space Platform for Project Suncatcher Moonshot ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) provides computing capacity to Anthropic
Provides computing capacity toDated / announced
Google Cloud confirmed a deal giving Anthropic access to up to one million Google Cloud TPU chips and more than 1 gigawatt of capacity coming online in 2026. Reported addition (Reuters, 29 September 2026): at least $111.1bn, Apr 2026 – Jul 2033; if Anthropic's actual spend falls short it must pay Google the difference (prospectus as reported by Reuters).

Source: 2025-10-23 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Historical / announced

Limits: Does not establish that all one million TPUs are active today -- the capacity is described as coming online through 2026 -- nor exclusivity, since Anthropic also uses AWS Trainium chips. Dollar figures added in V3.25.6 are from Anthropic's confidential prospectus as reported by Reuters on 29 September 2026. The prospectus has not been made public and Anthropic did not comment. A public filing could differ.

Anthropic to Expand Use of Google Cloud TPUs and Services ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) was a data-labeling customer of, reportedly cutting ties Scale AI
Buys fromDated / announced
Google reportedly planned to pay Scale AI about $200 million in 2025 for data-labeling services and was reported to be cutting ties with Scale AI and talking to competitors after Meta's investment in Scale AI; Google declined to comment on the report.

Source: 2025-06-14 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported as ending around June 2025; not confirmed on the record by Google

Limits: Based on Reuters sourcing that Google declined to confirm; the $200 million figure is a reported planned spend, not a confirmed paid amount, and the relationship's start date is not established.

Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI ↗
NRG Energy uses Google Cloud AI for a virtual power plant Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Uses technology fromDated / announced
DCD reported that NRG, Renew Home and Google Cloud plan a nearly 1 GW AI-powered virtual power plant in Texas by 2035, with Google Cloud providing predictive analytics and pricing models.

Source: 2024-11-08 · reviewed 2026-09-26

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Announced; target 2035

Limits: The VPP serves households, not data centers; does not establish how much capacity has been enrolled or payments to Google Cloud.

NRG, Renew, and Google partner on 1GW VPP in Texas ↗
Character.AI licensed technology to and had co-founders hired by Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withDated / announced
In August 2024, Google agreed to a non-exclusive license for Character.AI's technology and hired several of Character.AI's co-founders and researchers, a deal both companies confirmed.

Source: 2024-08-02 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Announced

Limits: Does not establish current ownership, exclusivity, or an ongoing operating relationship beyond the 2024 technology license and hiring event; the deal is also the subject of a later DOJ antitrust inquiry whose outcome is not established by this evidence.

Character.AI and Google ink licensing agreement for LLM technology ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) announced ground-station hosting for SpaceX
Provides infrastructure toDated / announced
Google Cloud announced on May 13, 2021 that SpaceX would place Starlink ground stations inside Google data center properties and connect them to Google Cloud's private network.

Source: 2021-05-13 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: A 2021 announcement. It does not establish how many ground stations were built, whether the arrangement is still in force five years later, what either side pays, or any link to SpaceX's later AI compute business.

Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Secure, Global Connectivity ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) provides cloud computing to Runway
Provides computing capacity toDated / announced
Google invested in Runway and Runway became a Google Cloud customer, as part of a generative-AI partnership announced in 2023.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Announced

Limits: Does not establish current cloud spend, exclusivity, or the size of Google's investment; Runway has since also contracted with CoreWeave for compute.

Google invests in generative AI startup Runway, gets it as a cloud customer ↗

Comparisons (6)

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) competes with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Competes withComparison only
Network World reported on July 7, 2026 that SpaceXAI is building a vertically integrated AI stack aimed at the same enterprise market served by established providers including Google.

Source: 2026-07-07 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap

Limits: Market overlap only, drawn from trade analysis. Google is simultaneously one of SpaceX's largest compute customers, which this row does not describe, and no share or revenue comparison is made.

SpaceXAI wants to compete on AI infrastructure, not just AI models ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) sells competing enterprise models against Anthropic
Competes withComparison only
Menlo Ventures' enterprise survey reported Google at 21 percent and Anthropic at 40 percent of enterprise LLM API spending in 2025, placing the two in the same buyer market even though Google is also an Anthropic investor and compute supplier.

Source: 2025-12-09 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap

Limits: Survey-based estimates from a venture firm, covering enterprise API spending only. They do not establish revenue, and the overlap does not cancel the separate investment and cloud-supply relationships between the two companies.

2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) offers alternative AI processors to NVIDIA
Competes withComparison only
Google TPUs offer another processor platform for AI workloads.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product comparison

Limits: Workload-specific alternative, not a drop-in replacement for every GPU use.

Google Cloud TPU product page ↗
Perplexity AI competes with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Competes withComparison only
Perplexity's AI-powered answer engine is described as a conversational search product competing for the same query traffic as Google's core search engine.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating

Limits: Reflects overlapping product category (search/answer products), not a market-share or revenue comparison; Google's search business sits mainly in Alphabet's advertising unit rather than the Google Cloud entity referenced here.

Perplexity AI | Founders, Investors, & Facts ↗
Microsoft competes with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Competes withComparison only
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Google Cloud's Vertex AI / TPU infrastructure, including the Ironwood TPU platform, are competing enterprise generative-AI and AI-infrastructure platforms.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating

Limits: Does not imply any commercial agreement between the companies or relative market share; based on this research's comparison of each company's own product announcements.

Ironwood TPUs and new Axion-based VMs for your AI workloads ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) competes with Oracle
Competes withComparison only
Google Cloud's Vertex AI / TPU infrastructure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's GPU compute offerings both target enterprise AI training and inference workloads, making them competing AI cloud infrastructure providers.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Reported operating

Limits: Does not imply any commercial agreement or relative market share between the two companies; based on this research's comparison of each company's own product pages.

GPU, Virtual Machines and Bare Metal ↗
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Google Compute Engine GPUs ↗
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