Anthropic to build in-house chip design team for Claude, hire engineers

Anthropic said on Wednesday it is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, confirming an earlier Reuters report, as the startup responds to a shortage ‌of chips ⁠needed ⁠to power and develop more advanced AI systems.
The ​company said it was hiring engineers with experience across the ​hardware and software stack to help co-design custom chips and AI models that ​can make Claude run faster ⁠and more efficiently ‌at the scale required ​by ​customers.

Reuters reported in April that ⁠Anthropic was mulling designing its own AI chips. The startup said custom silicon was the latest step in its multi-chip strategy and that it would continue to rely on a diversified hardware stack that includes technology from Amazon Web Services, Google, ‌Nvidia and AMD . Anthropic did not provide a timeline for its chip plans or say whether ⁠it intends to manufacture them itself.


Designing an advanced AI chip can cost roughly half a billion ​dollars, according to industry sources, as companies need to employ skilled engineers and spend to make sure the manufacturing process has no defects.