- Anthropic reportedly explored buying AI chip startup MatX for about $7 billion to speed up development of custom hardware for its AI models.
- The talks apparently shifted toward a partnership and then stalled; MatX is now seeking new funding at roughly a $4 billion valuation.
- MatX was founded by former Google TPU engineers — a sign of fierce talent and competition in the AI hardware race.
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