Anthropic to build in-house chip design team for Claude, hire engineers

Anthropic to build in-house chip design team for Claude, hire engineers 1 / 2 Anthropic to build in-house chip design team for Claude, hire engineers FILE PHOTO: Anthropic rolls out Opus 5 AI model in efficiency upgrade Reuters Wed, August 5, 2026 at 4:14 PM GMT+2 1 min read Aug 5 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Wednesday it is building an in-house team to ‌design custom chips for its Claude AI ‌models, confirming an earlier Reuters report, as the startup responds ​to a shortage of chips needed to power and develop more advanced AI systems. The company said it was hiring engineers with experience across the ‌hardware and software ⁠stack to help co-design custom chips and AI models that can make Claude ⁠run faster and more efficiently at the scale required by customers. Reuters reported in April that Anthropic ​was mulling ​designing its own AI ​chips.

The startup said custom ‌silicon was the latest step in its multi-chip strategy and that it would continue to rely on a diversified hardware stack that includes technology from Amazon Web Services, Google, Nvidia and ‌AMD. Anthropic did not provide a ​timeline for its chip plans ​or say whether ​it intends to manufacture them itself. Designing ‌an advanced AI chip can ​cost roughly ​half a billion dollars, according to industry sources, as companies need to employ skilled engineers ​and spend ‌to make sure the manufacturing process has ​no defects.