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Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips
TL;DRAnthropic hired Google's TPU lead to build custom AI chips instead of relying on others.
Why it matters: Custom chips reduce dependency on suppliers and could give Anthropic cost and performance advantages in training large models.
Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors.
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