Alphabet Inc. & ERC

Alphabet Inc.: Alphabet Inc. is among the companies hiring professionals who completed ERC's AI specialization programs, indicating its demand for AI-fluent talent.

ERC: ERC is an Indian tech education company that conducted programs leading to significant salary increases for its learners, demonstrating the value of its AI upskilling initiatives. The company's programs resulted in a 104% median salary jump for participants.

Alphabet Inc.: Anthropic has existing megadeals with Alphabet Inc.'s Google for chips and cloud services, indicating its broad strategy to secure capacity from multiple providers to meet its AI demand.

ERC: ERC, an AI coding startup, previously secured a similar computing resources agreement with SpaceX, demonstrating SpaceX's emerging role as a cloud provider for AI companies.