Anthropic’s chip-design pitch points to investor interest before its planned debut
Anthropic is telling prospective initial public offering investors that its Claude models can help speed up custom chip design. The company, which was described as headed toward a public debut that could value it near $1.5 trillion, is using that pitch to present artificial intelligence-assisted semiconductor engineering as an operational edge. Claude and the hardware unit Anthropic’s newly formed 15-person hardware unit is using Claude models to accelerate custom silicon…