Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
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Model labs hiring in-house chip teams is vertical integration — co-designing Claude and silicon to squeeze more performance per watt and per dollar. If you’re a heavy AI user, expect a future where “which model?” and “which hardware?” are a single architectural decision, not two separate vendor choices.
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