Anthropic, a startup, is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models. The company is 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.
Custom Chip Design
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. Anthropic did not provide a timeline for its chip plans or say whether it intends to manufacture them itself.
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.
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