Oct 23 (Reuters) -

Anthropic said on Thursday it Claude models would be trained

using up to one million of Google Cloud's tensor processing

units, worth tens of billions of dollars.

The deal underscores the immense computing demands of AI

firms for training, deployment and continuous inference in

generative AI, as they race to launch new products and features

to stay ahead in a fiercely competitive market.

To secure infrastructure swiftly, developers have been

rushing into

multi-billion dollar agreements

.

Alphabet's Google, also a backer of

Anthropic, will provide additional cloud computing services to

the startup behind the Claude chatbot.