Anthropic hires Google chip veteran Amir Salek as part of push into hardware

Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc’s Google, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors.

Salek is joining the compute team of Anthropic, maker of the Claude platform, the AI company said Friday. The executive ran Google’s tensor processing unit business until 2022 and delivered the first seven generations of those chips. In the new role, Salek will report to James Bradbury.