Anthropic recently confirmed the formation of an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for its Claude AI model. In a statement to Mobile World Live (MWL), Anthropic said it “is hiring engineers with experience across the stack”. The company described the silicon team as the latest step in its multi-chip approach. Business Insider cited a newly posted job listing which describes what Anthropic is looking for, which includes a “custom silicon team” with engineers spanning multiple areas of chip design and verification. Building AI chips in-house is expensive and technically demanding, but the benefits include improved performance and less dependence on Nvidia.