Micron Technology is stepping up cooperation on artificial intelligence infrastructure by signing a comprehensive partnership with Anthropic that includes high-performance memory supply and strategic investment.

On June 23, blockchain media outlet Cryptopolitan reported that Micron Technology recently signed a strategic agreement with Anthropic covering AI architecture design, securing visibility into memory and storage supply chains and using the generative AI model Claude. The two companies plan to work to optimise AI system performance and improve efficiency in scaling infrastructure.

The collaboration goes beyond a technical tie-up and extends to investment. Micron Technology joined Anthropic’s Series H funding round as a strategic investor and became a shareholder. With demand for AI computing surging, it is seen as the result of aligned interests between a semiconductor company with high bandwidth memory (HBM) technology and a large language model (LLM) developer.

Under the agreement, the companies will analyse the performance of memory and storage subsystems across various AI work environments. Based on the findings, they plan to advance AI infrastructure design methods and boost efficiency in system buildout and operations.

The cooperation is also being applied to real work environments. Micron Technology is already using Claude across several internal divisions. It is expanding use across the company, focusing on improving coding productivity and using autonomous AI agents, and said it has confirmed gains in work efficiency and productivity.

Anthropic’s rapid growth underpins the expanded cooperation. Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round in May that included Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. Its valuation rose to $965 billion, earning one of the highest valuations among AI startups.

The scale of the service is also growing quickly. Claude has about 30 million monthly active users, and the number of API calls it processes each month exceeds 25 billion. This is making it a key task to secure the memory and storage infrastructure needed to train and operate AI models.

Markets see Anthropic as potentially listing on the New York stock market as early as October this year, and no later than before year-end. At the same time, it is expanding cooperation on computing infrastructure with global companies and accelerating efforts to secure leadership in the AI ecosystem.

Today, we're proud to announce a strategic agreement with @AnthropicAI that spans memory and storage AI architecture design, supply and demand, enterprise adoption of Claude across Micron and a strategic investment in Anthropic’s Series H funding round. https://t.co/WkAzl0YXxK pic.twitter.com/Eowz2Q8eGF