Anthropic Enters The AI Chip Race With In-House Chip Team

Anthropic confirmed Wednesday it is building an in-house custom silicon team to design chips for its Claude models, a spokesperson said. The company posted a job listing paying $320,000 to $485,000 for engineers who have shipped finished semiconductor designs. The stated goal is co-design, building the chip and the model together so each shapes the other, similar to methods used by Apple for its M-series and Google for its TPU. A spokesperson framed the effort as making sure Claude runs faster and more efficiently at the scale users require. Anthropic said it keeps a multi-chip approach across AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD and offered no timeline for a finished part. The company expanded its partnership with Google and Broadcom in April for roughly 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity coming online from 2027. That sits on top of a gigawatt already arriving in 2026 under a Google Cloud agreement signed last October. Chief financial officer Krishna Rao called it the company's most significant compute commitment to date to serve exponential customer growth. Anthropic's run-rate revenue has passed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025. The company has been buying custom silicon for a year from Broadcom and Google. Every custom silicon program launched by labs still routes through the same handful of companies that design, connect, and manufacture chips. Anthropic naming Nvidia in the same sentence where it announced its own chip team is the most informative detail in the announcement.