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Anthropic committed $250 million to pre-revenue AI chip startup Fractile, betting heavily on custom silicon designed specifically for high-efficiency AI inference workloads.

Signals a decisive industry shift away from pure GPU dependency toward specialized inference ASICs, reshaping capital allocation and silicon procurement strategies for frontier models.
Trade pressSlicast · August 20, 2026 at 12:27 UTC · US · Source: Tech Times
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