Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company, has recruited a key expert who led AI semiconductor development at Google. This move accelerates the company's efforts to secure talent for its own AI chip development.
According to a report by Yonhap News on August 22, citing Bloomberg, Anthropic has hired Amir Saleh, who previously headed Google's AI chip Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) division.
Saleh worked at Google until 2022, where he led the development of TPUs from the first to the seventh generation. Before joining Google, he spent eight years at NVIDIA.
At Anthropic, Saleh will join the computation team and report to James Bradbury.
The push for in-house chip development at Anthropic is driven by the rapidly increasing demand for computational resources to run AI models. Securing its own chips will help the company address the shortage of computational infrastructure and reduce costs.
Earlier in June, Anthropic also hired Clive Chan, an early member of OpenAI's custom chip development team. The company is reportedly in discussions with Samsung Electronics' foundry division to produce its own AI chips.
However, the development of its own chips does not mean Anthropic will sever ties with NVIDIA. The company plans to continue utilizing external semiconductors, including NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), Google TPUs, and Amazon Trainium, in its computational strategy.
Competitor OpenAI is also pursuing its own AI chip development, having unveiled its custom AI chip, 'Jalapeño,' in June.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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