Anthropic hired Amir Salek to join its compute team. Salek previously founded Google’s custom chip program and led its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business until 2022.
The hire signals a strategic push to develop in-house semiconductors for the Claude AI model series. Anthropic joins industry peers Google, Amazon, and Meta in creating custom hardware to manage rising training and operational costs.
Designing proprietary chips aims to increase the speed and efficiency of Anthropic's AI systems. This initiative reduces the company's long-term dependence on external suppliers such as Nvidia and Google.