How I Audited My AI Stack for the Custom-Chip Era (20-Minute Checklist)
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic is going to design its own chips for Claude. The company confirmed it’s hiring an in-house silicon team — chip designers who will co-design hardware and models side by side, the way OpenAI already does. It sounds like a story about billion-dollar companies trading barbs over GPUs. It’s actually a story about the floor dropping out from under an assumption most of us build on: that AI pricing and availability are set by other people, and there’s nothing you can do about it. There is. I spent 20 minutes auditing my own stack against this trend, and the checklist below is what came out of it. ...