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

Aug 5 (Reuters) - 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.

Reuters reported in April that Anthropic was mulling designing ​its own AI chips.

The startup ‌said custom silicon was the latest step in its multi-chip strategy and ⁠that it would continue to rely on a diversified hardware stack that includes technology from Amazon ⁠Web Services, Google, Nvidia and AMD.

Anthropic did not provide ​a timeline for its chip plans or say whether it intends to manufacture them itself.

Designing an advanced AI ‌chip can cost roughly half a billion dollars, according to industry sources, ‌as companies need to employ skilled engineers ⁠and spend to ‌make sure the ​manufacturing process has no defects.

(Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan ‌Ananda)

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