Anthropic Builds In-House Chip Team for Custom AI Hardware

Anthropic is building its own in-house chip development team to design custom AI inference chips. This move aims to bypass the costly Nvidia GPUs that are commonly used for handling AI workloads. Anthropic has started hiring engineers to co-design these chips with an unspecified partner, and they need to be ready to work at a fast pace to meet the project's tight schedule.

This is just the latest major AI company to develop its own custom hardware. As global economic shortages squeeze chip supply, companies are turning to designing their own silicon for more efficient and potentially profitable data centers. Anthropic joins other prominent players like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI in building their own chips.