According to Dynamic Beating monitoring, Anthropic today publicly confirmed for the first time that it is building an internal chip team to design a custom AI chip for Claude. It will take a hardware and model co-design approach to allow Claude to "run faster and more efficiently at the scale required by customers," and explicitly stated that a multi-chip strategy will be adopted—hardware from AWS, Google, NVIDIA, and AMD will still be at the core of its scaling efforts.

Previously, Reuters reported that Anthropic was exploring the possibility of developing its own chips, and The Information revealed last month that Anthropic had been in talks with Samsung Electronics for potential manufacturing cooperation. The newly released job postings further clarified the plan details—Anthropic is recruiting engineers with extensive expertise in semiconductor design and verification to build a custom chip team, with salaries ranging from $320,000 to $485,000, requiring candidates to have experience in "personally contributing" to semiconductor design completion and shipment.

The job postings particularly emphasized that this is a role for those who have successfully mass-produced chips, have a pragmatic attitude towards scheduling, and can make significant decisions with the support of a not yet large organization. Anthropic is the latest AI lab to enter the field of self-developed chips—this June, OpenAI took the lead in launching the self-developed chip Jalapeño in collaboration with Broadcom.

Anthropic's launch of a self-developed chip plan at this time coincides with a surge in demand for Claude. Self-developed chips are seen as a key strategic path for top AI companies to reduce external dependence, achieve deep software-hardware synergies, amidst continuous cost increases in computing power, and tight external supplier capacity. Its multi-chip strategy also means that Anthropic will not completely detach from existing chip suppliers in the short term.

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