Anthropic Is Building Its Own Chip

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Comment by dormento 1 day ago

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

Comment by wifipunk 1 day 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.

Comment by closetheloopdev 1 day 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 With everything moving so fast nowadays, by the time the ASICs are ready for production, they could be already outdated, so FPGAs could be a quick way to test some novel designs, with or without LLMs' help.

Comment by breuleux 1 day 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.

Comment by RobertDeNiro 1 day ago

The tech that makes sense here is structured ASIC

Comment by kiran-ravi 1 day ago

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

Comment by imagetic 1 day ago

duh. they all are.

Comment by otabdeveloper4 1 day ago

They should vibe code it and see how it goes.

Comment by frays 1 day ago

Now they can claim they're "full stack" like Google as another justification for their $1 trillion IPO.

Comment by m4rtink 1 day ago

Good, another way they can waste more money & hopefully crash faster & harder.

Comment by Bluescreenbuddy 1 day ago

Translation: Anthropic is taking on more debt.