Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, a founder of Google’s custom-chip program and the former head of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business, to its compute team; Salek oversaw delivery of the first seven TPU generations and left Google in 2022. Anthropic currently sources chips from NVIDIA, Google and Amazon but has signaled plans to build an internal chip business and has begun recruiting and posting roles for the project.

2026-08-22

Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, a founder of Google’s custom-chip program and the former head of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business, to its compute team; Salek oversaw delivery of the first seven TPU generations and left Google in 2022. Anthropic currently sources chips from NVIDIA, Google and Amazon but has signaled plans to build an internal chip business and has begun recruiting and posting roles for the project.