Sources: Anthropic planned to buy MatX for about $7 billion

On 28 August, sources revealed that Anthropic had discussed the acquisition of the artificial intelligence chip seeding company MatX for approximately $7 billion to accelerate the development of customized hardware in its rapidly growing artificial intelligence business. According to an informed source, the merger negotiations have since evolved into a discussion of cooperative relationships. Previously, according to one of the sources, MatX was currently seeking a new round of financing, valued at approximately $4 billion. Discussions with MatX also indicated that Anthony may be interested in developing chips for model training, while other chips start-ups and competitors OpenAI are developing processors that are better suited to generating chat robotic responses, a process known as “inference”. However, informed sources suggest that Anthropic may also choose to develop the reasoning chip。