Anthropic’s Custom Chip Gambit Reshapes the AI Compute War
Anthropic Custom Chip plans include early talks with Samsung, while Microsoft chip talks could reduce costly Nvidia dependence at scale.
Coverage of the chips that train and run AI, including GPUs, custom accelerators, supply constraints and the companies competing to build them.
Anthropic Custom Chip plans include early talks with Samsung, while Microsoft chip talks could reduce costly Nvidia dependence at scale.
AMD and Anthropic strike a 2-gigawatt chip supply deal, with AMD investing up to $5 billion to expand AI compute competition globally.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin enters gigascale production with 72-GPU racks at CoreWeave and Google Cloud, lifting AI token throughput 40x for inference.
SkyPilot Raises 20M in a Lux Capital-led round to expand GPU cloud portability for more than 1,000 organizations across major providers.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model triggered a selloff in U.S. chip stocks after posting benchmark scores rivaling frontier U.S. models at far lower compute cost.
Chinese Chips power Zhipu AI’s new 1GW data center, built without Nvidia hardware, proving China can scale frontier AI training domestically.
CuspAI raised $450M and launched an industry coalition to use generative AI to design new materials, targeting rare-metal dependencies in global chip supply.
Kimi K3’s Memory Architecture may cut GPU needs, challenging Nvidia after Moonshot AI’s reported $30 billion Hong Kong IPO valuation push.
AI Chip Demand drives TSMC’s additional $100 billion Arizona fab investment, expanding US advanced chip capacity for major AI customers.
AI Smartphone race heats up as ZTE unveils its first AI-native lineup, joining 13 Chinese brands and intensifying pressure on chipmakers.