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Business Insider reports AI startup Anthropic has confirmed it is assembling an internal chip team to design custom accelerators for its Claude model. A job posting and company statement show Anthropic is hiring engineers to design bespoke chips; a spokesperson said this is the company’s first public confirmation. The spokesperson said Anthropic will co-design hardware and AI models so Claude can "run faster and more efficiently at customer scale." They added Anthropic will pursue a multi‑chip strategy and will continue to rely on hardware from AWS, Google, NVIDIA and AMD as key components when scaling compute.

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