Anthropic to build in-house chip design team for Claude, hire engineers

Anthropic said on Wednesday it is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, confirming an earlier Reuters report, as the startup responds to a shortage ‌of chips ⁠needed ⁠to power and develop more advanced AI systems.

The ​company said it was hiring engineers with experience across the ​hardware and software stack to help co-design custom chips and AI models that ​can make Claude run faster ⁠and more efficiently ‌at the scale required ​by ​customers.