Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip

Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project.

If the Claude maker goes ahead with the chip, it would be a relative newcomer in developing its own AI server chips, compared to others. Google and Amazon Web Services have both been successful at developing their own chips over many years, while Meta Platforms and Microsoft have also developed their own chips. OpenAI tapped Broadcom to design its own chip in 2024 and last month unveiled the first product of that partnership, Jalapeño, an inference chip built to run large-language models more efficiently.