Anthropic in Talks with Samsung to Develop Its Own Chip

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of language models, is discussing with South Korea's Samsung the possibility of building its own chip for artificial intelligence. TechCrunch reports the news.

The details of the potential agreement — including the architecture of the future chip, the scale of investment and the timeline — have not yet been disclosed. What is on the table is a set of negotiations, not a signed partnership.

Context: a move toward in-house chips

The news came roughly a week after OpenAI announced a partnership with Broadcom to build its own AI chip. Anthropic may therefore be following the path of its main rival, seeking to reduce its dependence on third-party suppliers of computing power.

Specialized chips let companies working with large language models optimize the cost of training and inference, and also lessen their reliance on a limited circle of graphics-processor makers. For Samsung, such a partnership could be a significant contract in the semiconductor foundry segment, where the company competes with TSMC.

It is not yet known what stage the talks between Anthropic and Samsung have reached, or when the parties might announce an official agreement, should one be reached.

Source: TechCrunch