Anthropic confirms in-house chip team to design Claude silicon

Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is building an in-house silicon team to co-design custom chips with Claude's model architecture, targeting roughly a 50% cut in per-token inference costs. The company is hiring chip engineers across front-end design, verification, and packaging at salaries up to $485,000, while continuing to rely on AWS, Google, Nvidia and AMD for near-term capacity.