Anthropic recently announced that it has hired Amir Salek, one of the founders of Alphabet's Google custom chip project, to join its computing team to report to James Bradbury. Salek was responsible for Google's tensor processing unit business until 2022, and successfully delivered the first seven generation chips. Prior to joining Anthropic, he was a senior managing director of Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm co-founded by the US Deputy Secretary of Defense, and worked for Nvidia. This personnel appointment marks that Anthropic is laying the foundation for entering the field of independent semiconductor manufacturing. The company currently purchases chips from various channels such as Nvidia, Google, and Amazon, but has recently made it clear that it intends to establish an internal silicon chip business and has begun publishing relevant job information. Like other AI giants, Anthropic is working to obtain sufficient data center infrastructure to support its development, and custom chips are expected to help it cope with supply shortages and optimize hardware design according to its own needs.

Anthropic recently announced that it has hired Amir Salek, one of the founders of Alphabet's Google custom chip project, to join its computing team to report to James Bradbury. Salek was responsible for Google's tensor processing unit business until 2022, and successfully delivered the first seven generation chips. Prior to joining Anthropic, he was a senior managing director of Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm co-founded by the US Deputy Secretary of Defense, and worked for Nvidia. This personnel appointment marks that Anthropic is laying the foundation for entering the field of independent semiconductor manufacturing. The company currently purchases chips from various channels such as Nvidia, Google, and Amazon, but has recently made it clear that it intends to establish an internal silicon chip business and has begun publishing relevant job information. Like other AI giants, Anthropic is working to obtain sufficient data center infrastructure to support its development, and custom chips are expected to help it cope with supply shortages and optimize hardware design according to its own needs.