OpenAI chip backbone jumps to Anthropic, the AI arms race has moved from model scale to the chip level

CoinWorld News: Clive Chan, an early member of OpenAI’s in-house chip team and the company’s second hardware employee, has announced his departure from OpenAI. This week, he joined Anthropic, working on custom chip and hardware-software co-design. Chan said he is deeply proud to have witnessed the team grow into a top-tier chip design force within two and a half years. Chan cannot disclose more chip details, but noted that, based on a collaboration between OpenAI and Broadcom that was previously announced, the custom chip project is scheduled to go into production in the second half of 2026. The reason for Chan leaving is his inability to resist the allure of “climbing to new heights from scratch.” Before joining OpenAI, Chan worked on the development of Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer.