24 August 2026
Anthropic hires Google chip executive for semiconductor work
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- Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, hired Amir Salek, who previously led custom chip projects at Google.
- Salek is joining Anthropic's compute team to help the company build its own semiconductors instead of relying on others.
- The hire signals Anthropic's plan to develop proprietary chip technology, similar to efforts by other large AI labs.
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Anthropic has hired former Google custom silicon executive Amir Salek to join its compute team as the AI lab begins laying groundwork for an in-house semiconductor initiative.