Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip
The talks signal Anthropic is moving from considering custom chips to actively developing one, joining Amazon, Google, and OpenAI in pursuing in-house silicon.
Reporting from 1 sources: GIGAZINE.
Anthropic is in early-stage discussions with Samsung to develop and manufacture a custom AI chip. The chip's use, performance, and server integration remain undecided. The move follows Anthropic's hiring of a former OpenAI chip developer and reflects a broader trend of AI companies seeking custom silicon to reduce dependence on NVIDIA.
Anthropic has contacted Samsung about collaborating on a custom AI chip, according to The Information. The plans are preliminary: the company has not yet determined the chip's purpose, performance targets, or how it would integrate into servers. The discussions follow Anthropic's hiring of Clive Chan, who previously worked on OpenAI's custom chip development, and come amid semiconductor supply constraints and rising computational demands for the Claude model family.
Anthropic declined to comment on the Samsung partnership specifically, telling TechCrunch that a diverse range of hardware configurations, including chips from Google, Amazon, and NVIDIA, will remain important to its computing strategy. Samsung already manufactures semiconductors for NVIDIA and is building an AI chip factory in South Korea with the company. If the talks materialize, the collaboration would expand the growing trend of AI model developers working directly with semiconductor manufacturers on custom silicon.
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