According to TechCrunch and Ars Technica reporting, Anthropic is building an in-house silicon design team to develop custom AI chips, joining OpenAI in efforts to reduce reliance on Nvidia and improve inference performance through hardware-software co-design. The move reflects industry-wide trend toward vertical integration of chip design among frontier AI labs.
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