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 hired Amir Salek, who previously led Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team. This move is part of Anthropic's broader strategy to develop its own chips and push into making its own semiconductors. Salek was a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, bringing significant experience to Anthropic's AI lab as it lays the groundwork for this initiative.