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Sources said Anthropic discussed buying AI-chip startup MatX for about $7 billion to accelerate custom-hardware development for its rapidly growing AI business. Talks later shifted toward a partnership, the sources added. One source said MatX is seeking a new funding round valuing the company near $4 billion. Discussions indicate Anthropic may target chips for model training, while other chip startups and rival OpenAI are developing processors optimized for inference; sources said Anthropic could also opt to build inference chips.

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