[Anthropic Publicly Confirms In-House AI Chip Development for Claude for the First Time, Adopts Multi-Chip Strategy, Offers $320K–$485K Annual Salary to Recruit Silicon Design Engineers] According to monitoring by 动察 Beating, Anthropic today publicly confirmed for the first time that it is forming an internal chip team to design custom AI chips for Claude. The company will adopt a hardware-model co-design approach to enable Claude to "operate faster and more efficiently at the scale required by customers" and has explicitly stated it will use a multi-chip strategy—hardware from AWS, Google, NVIDIA, and AMD will remain central to its scaling efforts. Previously, Reuters reported that Anthropic was exploring the possibility of developing its own chips, and The Information revealed last month that Anthropic had entered negotiations with Samsung Electronics regarding potential manufacturing collaboration. The latest job postings further clarify the details of the plan—Anthropic is recruiting engineers with extensive expertise in semiconductor design and verification to form a custom chip team, offering salaries ranging from $320,000 to $485,000. Candidates are required to have "direct personal contributions" to completed and shipped semiconductor designs. The job posting specifically emphasizes, "This role is for individuals who have successfully taped out chips, have a pragmatic approach to timelines, and can make significant decisions within a relatively small organization." Anthropic becomes the latest AI lab to venture into in-house chip development—OpenAI had already launched its custom chip, Jalapeño, developed in collaboration with Broadcom, this past June. Anthropic's initiation of its in-house chip program comes at a time when demand for Claude is surging. Custom chip development is seen as a critical strategic path for leading AI companies to reduce external dependencies and achieve deep software-hardware optimization amid rising compute costs and tight capacity from external suppliers. Its multi-chip strategy also indicates that Anthropic will not completely detach from existing chip suppliers in the short term. Click the link below to access the original article and join 动察 Beating · Feishu AI News Channel for 24/7 global AI news and updates. [Original Link]