Anthropic has confirmed it is hiring a custom silicon team to design its own chips for running AI models, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and improve performance through vertical integration.
Chinese carmakers are increasingly designing their own smart-driving chips, turning custom silicon into a key weapon in the EV tech war. Li Auto's new Mach M100 AI chip, tailored for autonomous driving, highlights this trend.
Xiaomi achieves AI inference speed record with MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, processing over 1,000 tokens per second on a single 8-GPU node, outperforming competitors with software innovations.
Anker has announced its own custom silicon that the company says will bring local AI to audio devices, mobile accessories, and IoT devices. The Thus processor is the world's first neural-net compute-in-memory AI audio chip, which is smaller than traditional chips, and requires less power to run complex computations. That makes it an attractive solution […]
Amazon is investing an additional $5 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total immediate commitment to $13 billion with potential for another $20 billion if commercial milestones are met. The deal will provide Anthropic with up to 5 gigawatts of Amazon's AI chips (Trainium and Graviton) to support its rapidly growing Claude AI services, which have experienced performance issues due to unprecedented user growth. Anthropic has committed over $100 billion to AWS technologies over the next decade.
