Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip

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dormento•23 minutes ago

Good, can they please make their own RAM as well and leave some for the little people?

wifipunk•about 2 hours ago

I recall how there were custom chips made for LLaMA for that make it super fast which is cool but am I wrong for feeling like that would slow down the release schedule of new frontier models? Couldn't tell from the article if these would be ASICs or more general purpose.

closetheloopdev•about 2 hours ago

ASICs may be too slow to iterate. If we want to close the development loop faster, I think FPGAs are a way to do so. With everything moving so fast nowadays, by the time the ASICs are ready for production, they could be already outdated, so FPGAs could be a quick way to test some novel designs, with or without LLMs' help.

breuleux•2 minutes ago

If the ASIC runs a model 100x better (faster, cheaper, less energy, etc.), it will remain competitive on any task for which frontier models don't improve as quickly. Any task for which current models are "good enough" arguably fall in this category. We just need to cross a threshold in terms of how many such tasks there are and their economic value. Also worth pointing out is that there's probably a lot of latent uses of LLMs, currently unexplored, that would be enabled specifically by a very low latency. Right now, I'd feel comfortable taking the risk.

RobertDeNiro•about 1 hour ago

The tech that makes sense here is structured ASIC

kiran-ravi•about 2 hours ago

Qwen 3.8 came up this week with claims on being good for designing chips. so competition has to tighten.

otabdeveloper4•41 minutes ago

They should vibe code it and see how it goes.

Bluescreenbuddy•about 1 hour ago

Translation: Anthropic is taking on more debt.

Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip

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