{"id":23100,"date":"2026-08-05T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:13:18","slug":"anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic is building a team to design its own custom chips for AI usage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/anthropic-in-house-silicon-chip-team-claude-2026-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Business Insider was first to report<\/a> on the news, but Anthropic has since confirmed with TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Claude maker said it is planning to co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently. Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/anthropic-talks-samsung-manufacture-custom-ai-chip?im_ref=x1K1izzfkxyZWYEUw1USoRqgUkuStWVvXRLQ1U0&amp;sharedid=businessinsider.com&amp;irpid=10078&amp;utm_term=businessinsider.com&amp;irgwc=1&amp;afsrc=1&amp;utm_source=affiliate&amp;utm_medium=cpa&amp;utm_campaign=10078-Skimbit+Ltd.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Information reported<\/a> that Anthropic was scouting Samsung as a potential partner for building such chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic\u2019s decision to design its own chips comes as demand for Claude rises while AI companies snatch up as many AI infrastructure deals as they can.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For its part, Anthropic has inked deals with AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD to access AI computing hardware. But to really scale to meet the level of demand, relying on others clearly isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic isn\u2019t the first AI company to decide to build its own chip. In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/24\/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom\/\">OpenAI unveiled its Broadcom-built Jalape\u00f1o chip<\/a>, which is designed specifically for inference workloads. Google DeepMind has long relied on Alphabet\u2019s TPU chips to power its AI models, while Meta has been developing its own MTIA accelerators for AI workloads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is seeking engineers with experience in chip design for its \u201ccustom silicon team,\u201d per a job listing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article has been updated to include confirmation from Anthropic. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/08\/05\/anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team\/?utm_source=tldrai\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic is building a team to design its own custom chips for AI usage. Business Insider was first to report on the news, but Anthropic has since confirmed with TechCrunch. The Claude maker said it is planning to co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently. Last month, The Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}