Anthropic abandoned a planned $7 billion purchase of chip startup MatX, now in talks to speed up chip design
talkingatoms · reddit · 2026-08-28
Reuters reports Anthropic planned and then abandoned a roughly $7 billion acquisition of chip startup MatX, and is now in talks to collaborate on accelerating chip design. The move signals frontier labs moving deeper into custom AI silicon.
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