Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
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Anthropic is in discussions with Samsung to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip, according to reporting. The company has not yet determined the chip's specific purpose, design, or performance level. Multiple AI companies are pursuing custom chips both to handle specific computing tasks and to reduce dependence on Nvidia, which dominates the chip industry. This move follows a similar announcement by Anthropic's competitor OpenAI, which partnered with Broadcom to create its own custom inference processor.
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