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The Projection

The surface is never the system.

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"tens of billions" (Anthropic's own characterization); up to 1M TPUs, >1GW capacity online 2026

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"tens of billions" (Anthropic's own characterization); up to 1M TPUs, >1GW capacity online 2026

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"tens of billions" (Anthropic's own characterization); up to 1M TPUs, >1GW capacity online 2026

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