Ex-Google executive Amir Salek joins Anthropic’s compute team

Amir Salek, who spent nearly a decade leading Google’s custom silicon organization, is joining Anthropic’s compute team. The move brings one of the tech industry’s most experienced hardware executives to the AI safety company at a time when compute infrastructure has become the defining bottleneck in the race to build more powerful AI systems. Salek led Google’s custom silicon efforts from 2013 to 2022, a period that encompassed the development and scaling of the company’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), the specialized AI chips that gave Google a meaningful edge in training large language models before the rest of the industry caught up. After leaving Google, he joined Cerberus Capital Management as Senior Managing Director, pivoting to deep tech investments on the capital side. Note to editor: The research context indicates there is no independent confirmation or widespread reporting of Salek joining Anthropic as of August 2026, and Anthropic has not acknowledged any association with Salek in any communications. The entire article is built on an unverified claim. The article should not be published without independent corroboration of the core premise. Disclosure: This article wa...