Anthropic in talks with chip start up MatX to speed up chip design: Sources
The merger talks underscore the AI lab’s ambition to secure the resources and talent needed to build its own chips.
Anthropic is in discussions with chip startup MatX to potentially acquire the company for around US$7 billion, aiming to speed up its in-house AI chip development, according to sources. The talks, which may have shifted to a partnership discussion, highlight Anthropic's ambition to secure resources and talent to build its own chips and reduce reliance on providers like Nvidia.
MatX, founded by former Google TPU engineers, is seeking new capital at a valuation of about US$4 billion. Anthropic, expected to list in 2026, is expanding its in-house silicon team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, which require vast data processing capabilities. The company aims to design cheaper and faster chips, while also working with providers like Nvidia, Google, and Amazon.
Anthropic plans to purchase AI chips worth US$36 billion and has signed a deal to rent AI cloud computing power worth US$45 billion. The discussions with MatX suggest Anthropic may be interested in producing a training chip, while other chip startups and OpenAI focus on processors for generating chatbot responses, known as inference.
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- Anthropic planned, then abandoned $7 billion purchase of MatX economictimes.indiatimes.com
