{"id":1031649,"date":"2026-08-28T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031649"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:23:30","slug":"anthropic-planned-then-abandoned-7-billion-purchase-of-matx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/anthropic-planned-then-abandoned-7-billion-purchase-of-matx\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic planned, then abandoned $7 billion purchase of MatX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic discussed buying artificial intelligence chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion, seeking to accelerate efforts to develop custom hardware for \u200bits fast-growing AI business, two people briefed on the matter told \u200bReuters. <\/p>\n<p>The merger talks, which a third person said have evolved into a discussion about a partnership, underscore the AI lab&#8217;s ambition \u200bto secure the resources and talent needed to build its own chips. The goal is to help Anthropic accelerate its in-house chip development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic discussed buying artificial intelligence chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion, seeking to accelerate efforts to develop custom hardware for \u200bits fast-growing AI business, two people briefed on the matter told \u200bReuters. The merger talks, which a third person said have evolved into a discussion about a partnership, underscore the AI lab&#8217;s ambition \u200bto secure the resources and talent needed to build its own chips. The goal is to help Anthropic accelerate its in-house chip development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031672,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031649\/revisions\/1031672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}