{"id":148331,"date":"2026-08-22T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/148331\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:22:16","slug":"anthropic-hires-google-chip-veteran-amir-salek-as-part-of-push-into-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/148331\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic hires Google chip veteran Amir Salek as part of push into hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropic PBC<\/a> has hired Amir Salek<\/a>, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc’s Google<\/a>, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors.<\/p>\n

Salek is joining the compute team of Anthropic, maker of the Claude platform<\/a>, the AI company said Friday. The executive ran Google’s tensor processing unit<\/a> business until 2022 and delivered the first seven generations of those chips. In the new role, Salek will report to James Bradbury.
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Anthropic, which buys chips from a variety of sources, including Nvidia<\/a> Corp, Google and Amazon.com, has indicated recently that it wants to build an in-house silicon business. The San Francisco-based company has begun hiring and listing jobs for the effort.<\/p>\n

Like other AI giants, Anthropic is scrambling to get enough data center infrastructure to support its ambitions. Custom chips<\/a> would potentially help it cope with supply shortages and tailor designs to better meet its needs.<\/p>\n

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Rival OpenAI<\/a>, the company behind ChatGPT, is taking similar steps. It has unveiled a chip called Jalapeno, co-developed with Broadcom, and plans to begin using it later this year.Anthropic<\/a> is signing chip and data center capacity deals at a rapid clip – working with both established and emerging vendors. The company has an agreement with UK-based chip startup Fractile for an initial order of roughly $250 million of its chips, with the intention to expand that contract in the future, Bloomberg News has reported.<\/p>\n

The AI lab also recently signed capacity deals with Riot Platforms and Volta Infra Holdings. After leaving Google, Salek has been senior managing director at Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm co-founded by Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg. He also previously worked at Nvidia, the leading maker of AI processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc’s Google, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57080,72698,53,1479,8397,9376,132,58,157,3089],"class_list":["post-148331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai-semiconductors","tag-amir-salek","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-pbc","tag-claude-platform","tag-custom-chips","tag-google","tag-nvidia","tag-openai","tag-tensor-processing-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}