It's Official: Anthropic Is Building an in-House Chip Team for Claude

Anthropic is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI model, the company confirmed on Tuesday. An Anthropic spokesperson told Business Insider that the startup is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time it has publicly confirmed the plans. They added that Anthropic would co-design hardware and models, allowing Claude to run faster and more efficiently at the scale our customers need. The spokesperson said Anthropic has taken and will continue to take a multi-chip approach in which hardware from AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD will remain central to the AI lab's scaling efforts. A recently posted job listing detailed Anthropic's plans for a custom silicon team, with the company seeking engineers with expertise across a wide range of chip design and verification domains. The engineer position lists a salary range of $320,000 - $485,000 and says candidates must be able to demonstrate direct personal contribution to the finalization and shipping of semiconductor designs. Reuters previously reported that Anthropic was exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, while The Information reported last month that Anthropic had held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner.