Anthropic Hires Google TPU Founder Amir Salek for In-House Chip Push
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Updated · Bloomberg · Aug 22
Anthropic Hires Google TPU Founder Amir Salek for In-House Chip Push
3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Aug 22
Summary
Anthropic said Friday that Amir Salek, who led Google’s TPU business until 2022, has joined its compute team.
Salek delivered the first 7 generations of Google’s tensor processing units, giving Anthropic a senior chip architect as it lays groundwork to build its own semiconductors.
The move signals a deeper hardware push at the Claude maker, where Salek will report to James Bradbury.
With a former Google TPU mastermind on board, will Anthropic's secret custom chip finally break the industry's reliance on Nvidia?
Anthropic is training Claude to design its own physical hardware—could this unprecedented move spark a new era of self-improving machines?
As AI giants quietly abandon standard GPUs for custom silicon, who will ultimately control the multi-billion dollar future of enterprise infrastructure?