Alphabet Inc.’s cloud and chip businesses just got a big endorsement in the form of a refreshed agreement with artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic.

Under the terms of the newly announced deal, Anthropic will be able to access up to 1 million of Google’s

GOOGL GOOG tensor processing units, or TPUs, to train and run its Claude large-language model. The company, which is a rival to OpenAI, will also use various Google Cloud services.