Anthropic Weighs Using Microsoft AI Chips, Information Says (1)

Anthropic PBC is in talks to rent Microsoft Corp. AI server chips, the Information reported, as the startup seeks to boost computing power and meet demand for its services.

Microsoft, like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc., has been designing chips in an effort to reduce its reliance on Nvidia Corp. semiconductors. The company’s Maia chips would give Anthropic another way to run its Claude models, the technology news site reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Last year, Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion worth of computing capacity from Microsoft’s Azure cloud service, while Microsoft and ...