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

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.