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Well, Anthropic is building a team to design its own custom chips for AI usage.
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Business Insider was first to report on the news, but Anthropic has since confirmed that with TechCrunch, the cloud maker said it is planning to co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
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Last month, the Information reported that Anthropic was scouting Samsung as a potential partner
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For building such chips, Anthropic's decision to design its own chips comes as demand for Claude rises while AI companies snatch up as many AI infrastructure deals as they can.
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For its part, Anthropic has inked deals with AWS, Google, NVIDIA, and AMD to access AI computing hardware.
But to really scale to meet the level of demand, relying on others clearly is not enough.
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Anthropic is not the first AI company to decide to build its own chip.
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Back in June, OpenAI unveiled its Broadcom-built Jalapeno chip, which is designed specifically for inference workloads.
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Google DeepMind has long relied on Alphabet's TPU chips to power its AI models, while Meta has been developing its own MTIA accelerators for AI workloads.
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As the job listing reads, the company is seeking engineers with experience in chip design for its custom silicon team.
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That's all for now.
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Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months.
The San Francisco-based firm drew backing from returning investors NightDragon and NEA.
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The funding arrives as two major AI research labs disclosed last week that their models had breached systems outside their intended scope.
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Horizon 3, which has spent six years building AI specifically designed to probe networks for vulnerabilities in a controlled, authorized manner, is riding growing enterprise demand.
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With AI-driven attacks accelerating, enterprises are rushing to stress test their defenses at scale, a gap that traditional security vendors have largely left unfilled.
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Matt Hartley, the company's chief revenue officer, said that its Node Zero platform has two core strengths.
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It can test live systems without shutting down operations, a capability other AI-powered tools have struggled to deliver reliably, and it scans an entire infrastructure continuously rather than once a year, examining the full network rather than just 2-3%.
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