Anthropic Confirms Custom AI Chip Team for Claude, Hiring Engineers at $3.27M Salary

Anthropic has officially confirmed it is building an internal chip design team to create custom AI chips for its Claude models. The company stated it is pursuing a multi-chip strategy, continuing to use AWS Trainium and other third-party chips while developing its own custom silicon. The goal is to co-design models and hardware to improve Claude's speed and efficiency at scale. Anthropic is hiring chip engineers with compensation packages reaching $3.27 million annually, signaling the seriousness of this initiative. This makes Anthropic the latest AI lab to pursue custom silicon, following Google's TPU, Amazon's Trainium, and Microsoft's Maia.