Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Anthropic said Thursday it is hiring a custom silicon team to design its own chips for running its models. A company spokesperson confirmed the plans to Business Insider and TechCrunch after the publication noticed a job listing for a senior engineer with experience shipping semiconductor designs. The spokesperson clarified that Anthropic will still take a multi-chip approach and plans to use hardware from other companies alongside its own designs as it continues to scale up. The move follows a report from The Information that Anthropic was considering working with Samsung as a hardware manufacturing partner. Competitor OpenAI recently announced a custom chip called Jalapeño designed for large language model inference in data centers and partnered with Broadcom to develop it. Google has been running its models on its own hardware for a while. Meta has also designed and deployed its own chips, and Mistral is reportedly looking into doing the same.