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.