Anthropic weighs building its own AI chips- Reuters By Investing.com

Investing.com-- Anthropic is considering designing its own artificial intelligence chips amid a shortage of processors needed to power advanced AI, Reuters reported on Thursday.

The plans are still in early stages, and Anthropic may still decide to only buy AI chips over designing them, Reuters reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

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Anthropic- which is backed by several major tech firms, including Alphabet and Amazon, uses a host of different chips to run its flagship AI model Claude.

The company had earlier this week signed a long-term deal with Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO) for AI chips, specifically Google's Tensor Processing Units.

Anthropic's consideration of building in-house AI chips comes amid similar discussions at other major tech firms, including Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) and OpenAI.