Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.