New hire on Anthropic's compute team; founder and former head of Google's TPU program (2013-2022), most recently Senior Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management's Tracker Ventures.
AI lab building an internal custom silicon/chip-design team to co-design hardware with its Claude models, while stating it will keep existing multi-vendor hardware deals intact.
Existing TPU supplier to Anthropic; Anthropic has committed to up to 1 million Google TPUs and up to 3.5 gigawatts of TPU capacity via a Broadcom-designed deal starting 2027.
Reported potential manufacturing partner for Anthropic's custom AI chip; discussions are early-stage with no decisions yet on chip specs or purpose.
Incumbent GPU supplier whose pricing and supply constraints are cited as a motivator for custom-silicon efforts across the industry, though Anthropic says it will keep using Nvidia hardware alongside any new chip.
Competing AI lab pursuing its own custom chip (a Broadcom-built inference processor) as part of the same industry-wide shift away from sole reliance on Nvidia.