{"id":2111,"date":"2026-04-10T00:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/2111\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:31:29","slug":"exclusive-anthropic-weighs-building-it-own-ai-chips-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/2111\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive-Anthropic weighs building it own AI chips, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">By Max A. Cherney and Deepa Seetharaman<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its \u200cown chips, three sources said, as the company and its \u200crivals respond to a shortage of AI chips needed to power and develop more advanced \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI systems;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI systems&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The plans are in early stages and the company may still decide to only buy AI chips and not design any, according to two people with knowledge of the matter and one person briefed on Anthropic&#8217;s \u200cplans. The company has \u2060yet to commit to a specific design or put together a dedicated team to work on the project, one \u2060of the sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">A spokesperson for the San Francisco-based company declined to comment on the article.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a0648ce0-137d-11f1-bfff-bf1c4d197a2d.jpeg\" alt=\"Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo\/Patrick Sison)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"641\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Pages from the Anthropic website and the company&#8217;s logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo\/Patrick Sison)  \u00b7 ASSOCIATED PRESS    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Demand for its AI model Claude has accelerated in 2026, \u200bwith the \u200bstartup&#8217;s run-rate revenue now surpassing $30 billion, \u200bup from about $9 billion at \u200cthe end of 2025, Anthropic said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Anthropic uses a range of chips, including tensor processing units (TPUs) designed by Alphabet&#8217;s Google and Amazon&#8217;s chips to develop and run its AI software and chatbot Claude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Earlier this week, Anthropic signed a long-term deal with Google and Broadcom, which helps \u200cdesign the TPUs. That deal builds on \u200bthe company&#8217;s commitment to invest $50 billion in \u200bstrengthening U.S. computing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Anthropic&#8217;s discussions \u200bmirror similar efforts underway at large tech companies that \u200care seeking to design their own \u200bAI chips, including Meta \u200band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Designing an advanced AI chip can cost roughly half a billion dollars, according to industry sources, as companies need to \u200bemploy skilled engineers and \u200cspend to make sure the manufacturing process has no defects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by \u200bMax A. Cherney and Deepa Seetharaman in San Francisco; Editing \u200bby Sayantani Ghosh and Aurora Ellis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Max A. Cherney and Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,53,25,2306],"class_list":{"0":"post-2111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-chips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}