AI firm Anthropic has hired a Google chip founder for its new semiconductor team. This move signals Anthropic's ambition to develop its own custom AI chips. The company is also securing significant data center capacity deals. Rival OpenAI is pursuing similar custom chip development strategies. These efforts aim to address supply shortages and optimize AI hardware.

Former Google custom silicon chief Amir Salek joins Anthropic's compute team, bringing nearly a decade of chip design expertise to the Claude AI

Anthropic confirms a custom silicon team to design chips for Claude models, hiring a Google chip veteran as AI labs race to control their own