Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-21/anthropic-taps-google-chip-veteran-as-part-of-push-into-hardware"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260821/i23.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260821/p23#a260821p23" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Dina Bass / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-21/anthropic-taps-google-chip-veteran-as-part-of-push-into-hardware">Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors.</p>