@LiorOnAI: Anthropic building its own inference chip makes sense. The AI race is becoming vertically integrated. A few years ago, …
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Anthropic is developing its own AI inference chip and is in early talks with Samsung for its 2nm process, a move towards vertical integration in the AI race.
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Anthropic building its own inference chip makes sense.
The AI race is becoming vertically integrated.
A few years ago, the advantage came from having the best model.
Today, your cost per token, latency, and compute supply increasingly determine whether that model becomes a business.
That’s why frontier labs are moving down the stack.
Models alone are no longer enough.
NIK (@ns123abc): 🚨BREAKING: ANTHROPIC COOKING ITS OWN AI INFERENCE CHIP
In early talks with SAMSUNG for its 2nm process + advanced packaging
Samsung already invested in Anthropic’s Series H btw
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