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Google details Ironwood superpods but general availability remains ahead

Google Cloud announced that its seventh-generation Ironwood TPU would become generally available in the coming weeks, with superpods scaling to 9,216 chips and 1.77 petabytes of shared high-bandwidth memory.

Why it matters: Custom accelerators were being sold as complete inference systems—chips, interconnect, memory, scheduling, and serving software—rather than isolated silicon.

Read storyOriginal source · cloud.google.com

Anthropic plans access to one million Google TPUs

Anthropic and Google Cloud announced an expansion worth tens of billions of dollars, giving Anthropic planned access to up to one million TPUs and well over one gigawatt of capacity expected online in 2026.

Why it matters: A frontier lab was diversifying across Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium and NVIDIA GPUs, showing that model scale increasingly depends on multi-accelerator software and supply strategy.

Read storyOriginal source · anthropic.com