Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Anthropic confirmed it is designing its own custom silicon to power its Claude models, hiring a 'custom silicon team' including a senior engineer with semiconductor experience. The company will maintain a 'multi-chip approach,' using hardware from other vendors alongside its own designs as it scales. Anthropic follows rivals OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Mistral in developing in-house AI chips.

Anthropic is hiring a “custom silicon team” to design chips on which to run its models, the company has revealed. Yesterday, Business Insider noticed https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-in-house-silicon-chip-team-claude-2026-8 a job listing for a senior engineer with experience shipping semiconductor designs. You can see listings for a silicon engineer https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5286348008 and a technical program manager, silicon https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5380377008 on Anthropic’s job board right now. A spokesperson for Anthropic then confirmed the plans to both Business Insider and TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team/ . 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 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsung-manufacture-custom-ai-chip that Anthropic was considering working with Samsung as a hardware manufacturing partner. Anthropic is not alone in walking this path. Its competitor, OpenAI, recently announced a new custom chip called Jalapeño https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/openai-and-broadcom-announce-chip-designed-for-llm-inference-at-scale/ designed for large language model inference in data centers. OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to develop the chip. Google has been running its models on its own hardware for a while; Meta has also designed and deployed its own chips, and Mistral is reportedly looking into doing the same.