Anthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips, Samsung reported as manufacturing partner

Anthropic has announced it is building a team to co-design custom ASIC chips for AI inferencing workloads, giving it greater control over its compute buildout. Samsung is reported as the manufacturing partner for the Claude maker's custom chips, which aim to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs.

• Anthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs — Samsung reported as manufacturing partner for Claude maker
• Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
• Confirming rumors, Anthropic reveals plan to develop custom chip
• Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”
• Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team