Anthropic Builds Custom AI Chip Team for Claude

Anthropic is putting together a team to design its own AI chips, according to Business Insider. The company behind Claude is looking to hire engineers for what it calls a "custom silicon team," building hardware alongside its models so the whole system runs faster and cheaper. The Information reported last month that Anthropic had already been talking to Samsung about a potential manufacturing partnership for the effort.

The timing tracks with how stretched Anthropic's compute situation has gotten. Claude usage keeps climbing, and Anthropic has spent the past year locking in deals with AWS, Google, Nvidia and AMD just to keep pace. Renting capacity from four different partners only goes so far when demand keeps outrunning supply, which appears to be pushing Anthropic toward building its own silicon instead of leaning entirely on outside vendors.

That puts Anthropic in company with rivals who made the same call earlier. OpenAI rolled out its Broadcom-built Jalapeño chip in June for inference work, Google DeepMind has run on Alphabet's TPUs for years, and Meta has its own MTIA accelerators in development. Anthropic hasn't responded to a request for comment on its plans.