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Reuters
Wed, August 5, 2026 astatine 9:14 AM CDT 1 min read
Aug 5 (Reuters) - Anthropic said connected Wednesday it is gathering an in-house squad to design customized chips for its Claude AI models, confirming an earlier Reuters report, arsenic the startup responds to a shortage of chips needed to powerfulness and make much precocious AI systems.
The institution said it was hiring engineers with acquisition crossed the hardware and bundle stack to assistance co-design customized chips and AI models that tin marque Claude run faster and much efficiently astatine the standard required by customers.
Reuters reported successful April that Anthropic was mulling designing its ain AI chips.
The startup said customized silicon was the latest measurement successful its multi-chip strategy and that it would proceed to trust connected a diversified hardware stack that includes exertion from Amazon Web Services, Google, Nvidia and AMD.
Anthropic did not supply a timeline for its spot plans or accidental whether it intends to manufacture them itself.
Designing an precocious AI spot tin cost astir half a cardinal dollars, according to manufacture sources, arsenic companies request to employment skilled engineers and walk to marque definite the manufacturing process has no defects.
(Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash successful Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda)
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