Anthropic reportedly in talks with Samsung over custom AI chips

CoinFeed July 2 news, according to The Information, three sources revealed that Anthropic has initiated early development work on its own AI chips and is in discussions with Samsung Electronics about potential foundry partnership. This move follows competitor OpenAI's approach, aiming to further control the costly computing infrastructure that underpins its AI models. Google and Amazon Web Services have successfully developed their own chips after years of investment; Meta and Microsoft have also launched proprietary chips; OpenAI partnered with Broadcom in 2024 to design its own chip and released its first jointly developed product, Jalapeño, last month. Insiders say Anthropic is still in the stage of determining the chip's positioning, what functions it needs to achieve, what performance level to reach, and how to integrate it into servers or server clusters.