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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Ars Technica • Thu, 06 Aug 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

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Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

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