Anthropic has confirmed that it’s assembling a “custom silicon team” to design chips of its own for running Claude, a spokesperson told Business Insider, the first time the company has said so publicly. The spokesperson said Anthropic will develop its chips and its models together, which should make Claude both quicker and more efficient at the volumes customers demand, and that AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD hardware stays central under what they called a multi-chip approach. A job posting seeks engineers across chip design and verification who have personally shipped semiconductor designs, at a salary of $320,000 to $485,000. Anthropic approached Samsung Electronics about manufacturing, The Information reported last month. OpenAI unveiled a chip of its own, built with Broadcom, in June.
