Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
The short version
- Anthropic is hiring a “custom silicon team” to design chips on which to run its models, the company has revealed.
- The spokesperson clarified that Anthropic will still take a “multi-chip approach,” with plans to use hardware from other companies alongside its own designs as it continues to scale up.
- This is confirmation of a rumor that has been circulating for a little bit; The Information previously reported that Anthropic was considering working with Samsung as a hardware manufacturing partner.
What happened
Anthropic is not alone in walking this path. Its competitor, OpenAI, recently announced a new custom chip called Jalapeño designed for large language model inference in data centers.
Why it matters
OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to develop the chip.
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