Court documents show Google is heavily invested in AI startup Anthropic

Among the bigger names in the world of Big Tech, Google reigns supreme in almost all ways globally. It has a laundry list of products on both the hardware and software side, with Google I/O 2025 set to showcase some of its latest innovations with Android 16, Android XR, and, of course, Gemini. Artificial intelligence became the public focus of Google’s product synergy just over a year ago, and Gemini has a lot of useful features across the entire landscape of Google’s app library (some of which we didn’t realize until recently). For Google to continue running the AI gauntlet at the highest level its executives can dictate, it has invested in many startup AI companies, but it’s typically kept its involvement in said startups quiet. You can’t fool cold hard courts, though.