Following in the footsteps of Google, Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI, Claude developer Anthropic is reportedly building a new team to design its own custom AI chips, Business Insider reports. For most companies designing their own chips, this solves two key problems: a demand for chips that has completely outstripped supply and a need to run AI tasks as efficiently as possible. So, like other AI companies before it, Anthropic is getting into the hardware game and putting together a team for it. Although it suggests some semblance of autonomy, this job is about getting a chip design over the line on schedule. Google continues to develop its TPUs to power its own chips, and Meta has a new AI chip design that is expected to enter production in September.