Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Anthropic has added Amir Salek, who led Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business through 2022, to its compute team. Salek’s appointment is aimed at accelerating Anthropic’s effort to design and produce its own custom AI chips, reducing reliance on external hardware providers.