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Anthropic negotiates custom AI chips with Samsung, AI hardware competition heats up

Anthropic is in discussions with Samsung to collaborate on developing new custom AI chips. The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own AI chip in partnership with Broadcom. This means that leading AI large model companies are accelerating their penetration into the chip layer, attempting to break free from excessive dependence on Nvidia and build their own dedicated AI computing infrastructure.

AI large model competition has extended from model capabilities to the chip infrastructure layer. Anthropic and OpenAI have almost simultaneously launched their own chip development plans, marking an acceleration of the trend among large model companies to "de-Nvidia." Whoever can first create chips optimized for their own model architectures may gain a key advantage in cost and inference efficiency.

Although the initial investment in self-developed chips is huge, in the long run it can significantly reduce inference costs, which is a key step for large model companies to achieve profitability. Nvidia's monopoly is being challenged by multiple forces.

Synergy between model architecture optimization and chip design is the true moat. Anthropic's choice of Samsung over TSMC may be related to Samsung's compute-in-memory technology roadmap.

The barrier to self-developed chips is extremely high, and even tech giants face challenges with yield rates and design cycles. The chip plans of Anthropic and OpenAI will take at least 2-3 years to materialize, and in the short term, Nvidia remains irreplaceable.