Anthropic is building an in-house chip design team that will oversee the development of custom AI hardware.

First reported by Business Insider, the AI company has publicly confirmed reports that first emerged in April 2026 that claimed it was exploring the possibility of designing its own AI chips.

– Anthropic

According to BI, an Anthropic spokesperson said the company is putting together an in-house chip team that will focus on co-designing custom hardware that will allow its Claude large language model (LLM) to run faster and more efficiently.

Job listings posted by Anthropic include silicon engineer and hardware system architect roles.