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Anthropic is moving toward its own AI chips — could this challenge Nvidia?

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Anthropic has hired former Google TPU leader Amir Salek as it expands its compute team and moves toward developing custom AI chips. Salek reportedly helped lead Google's TPU program through its first seven generations. What makes this interesting is that Anthropic isn't simply trying to build bette…

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  1. 2026-08-22 15:56 · r/OpenAI
    Anthropic is moving toward its own AI chips — could this challenge Nvidia?

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