Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

In Brief Posted: 7:13 AM PDT · August 5, 2026 Image Credits:MirageC / Getty Images Rebecca Bellan Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team Anthropic is building a team to design its own custom chips for AI usage. Business Insider was first to report on the news, but Anthropic has since confirmed…

In Brief Posted: 7:13 AM PDT · August 5, 2026 Image Credits:MirageC / Getty Images Rebecca Bellan Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team Anthropic is building a team to design its own custom chips for AI usage. Business Insider was first to report on the news, but Anthropic has since confirmed with TechCrunch. The Claude maker said it is planning to co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently. Last month, The Information reported that Anthropic was scouting Samsung as a potential partner for building such chips. Anthropic’s decision to design its own chips comes as demand for Claude rises while AI companies snatch up as many AI infrastructure deals as they can.  For its part, Anthropic has inked deals with AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD to access AI computing hardware. But to really scale to meet the level of demand, relying on others clearly isn’t enough. Anthropic isn’t the first AI company to decide to build its own chip. In June, OpenAI unveiled its Broadcom-built Jalapeño chip, which is designed specifically for inference workloads. Google DeepMind has long relied on Alphabet’s TPU chips to power its AI models, while Meta has been developing its own MTIA accelerators for AI workloads.  The company is seeking engineers with experience in chip design for its “custom silicon team,” per a job listing. This article has been updated to include confirmation from Anthropic. Topics AI, AI chips, Anthropic, Hardware, In Brief October 13 – 15 San Francisco Scale faster. Grow your portfolio. Gain practical expertise. No matter your goal, Disrupt can empower you.Save up to $330 today! REGISTER NOW Newsletters See More Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Related AI Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.  Rebecca Bellan 22 hours ago AI Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out Dominic-Madori Davis 1 day ago Security Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Zack Whittaker 2 days ago Latest in AI Commerce Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google Sarah Perez 2 hours ago AI Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks Ivan Mehta 2 hours ago TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals  TechCrunch Events 3 hours ago

Source: TechCrunch — Published August 5, 2026 at 14:13 UTC — Category: Business