Anthropic has opened early talks with Samsung Electronics about building its own AI chip on Samsung's 2 nanometer process node, paired with its advanced packaging facilities. The Information first reported the discussions on July 2, and the story has since been confirmed by outlets including TechCrunch and Bloomberg. There is no prototype, no finalized specification, and no manufacturing timeline. Anthropic has not even decided what the chip is optimized for. Clive Chan, an early member of OpenAI's own custom silicon team, joined Anthropic as part of a deliberate hardware buildout. OpenAI unveiled its own first chip, a Broadcom-built inference processor called Jalapeño, on June 24. Broadcom and OpenAI took it from initial design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months. Jalapeño is built for inference and targeting deployment by the end of 2026. Anthropic has been explicit that Nvidia GPUs, Google's tensor processing units, and Amazon's Trainium chips remain central to how it scales Claude. In October 2025, Google committed up to $40 billion in cash and TPU capacity to Anthropic, giving it access to as many as one million TPUs. In April 2026, Amazon followed with up to $25 billion in investment and a commitment from Anthropic to spend more than $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, tied to deploying up to five gigawatts of Trainium capacity. Anthropic is also in discussions with Microsoft and the UK chip startup Fractile