Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom artificial intelligence chip as the Claude developer seeks greater control over the hardware powering its models.

The discussions remain preliminary, with Anthropic still determining the processor’s purpose, performance requirements and how it would be integrated into a server, The Information reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the plans.

No final manufacturing agreement has been reached, and Anthropic has not decided whether the chip would be designed primarily for training AI models or running them after deployment.

The company told The Information that chips from Amazon, Google and Nvidia would remain central to its computing strategy. Anthropic currently relies on Amazon’s Trainium processors, Google’s tensor processing units and Nvidia graphics processors to support its growing infrastructure needs.

The potential partnership comes as major AI companies increasingly develop processors tailored to their own models to improve efficiency and reduce their dependence on general purpose hardware.

OpenAI last month introduced its first custom inference chip, developed with Broadcom and designed specifically to run large language models. The processor is part of a broader push by the company to build more of its own computing infrastructure.

Anthropic’s talks could also give Samsung a high profile customer for its foundry business as it competes with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. for advanced chip manufacturing contracts.