AI BriefingAnthropic Hires Google TPU Veteran Amir Salek to Develop Custom Chips
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Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, who led Google's TPU division, to build its own silicon organization.
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Anthropic announced the hiring of Amir Salek to develop custom chips. Salek founded Google's custom chip program and oversaw the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business, successfully launching the first seven generations of Google TPUs until 2022.
Before joining Google, he established and led the system-on-chip (SoC) design organization at Nvidia, and holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering and computer science from USC. After leaving Google in 2022, he spent four years as a Senior Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management, investing in the semiconductor and AI sectors.
With this hire, Salek joins Anthropic's compute team and will report to team lead James Bradbury. This move is significant as it demonstrates Anthropic's acquisition of the expertise required to build a semiconductor organization within a software and infrastructure company.
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