Anthropic eyes Samsung for a custom chip to cut Nvidia dependence

anthropic is in talks with samsung to collaborate on a custom ai chip, though specifics regarding its application and power are still undefined, according to a report by the information. the company currently relies on a mix of hardware from google, amazon, and nvidia, but this exploration signals a push for greater hardware independence. this trend mirrors competitors like openai, which recently partnered with broadcom to build the efficient 'jalapeño' inference chip, and amazon, which uses custom tpus. these efforts highlight how ai labs are attempting to mitigate nvidia's dominance and optimize compute economics for large-scale model training and inference.