Anthropic planned, then abandoned $7 billion purchase of MatX

The merger talks, which a third person said have evolved into a discussion about a partnership, underscore the AI lab's ambition ​to secure the resources and talent needed to build its own chips. The goal is to help Anthropic accelerate its in-house chip development.

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