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IT之家 8 月 22 日消息，据彭博社报道，Anthropic 于周五透露，前谷歌 TPU 项目创始高管之一阿米尔 · 萨莱克（Amir Salek）将加入 Anthropic 的算力团队。    MACON, Ga. -- A South Carolina man previously convicted of smuggling protected turtles between the United States and Hong Kong faces new allegations of turtle-related crimes in Georgia. Bibb County sheriff's deputies arrested and jailed Steven Verren Baker, 43, of Holly Hill, South Carolina, on Tuesday and charged him with 15 felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals.No lawyer was listed in Georgia court records for Baker, who remained jailed Friday with bail set at $8,250. His South Carolina lawyer has since died.Deputies were responding to a call about an abandoned dog in Macon when they noticed turtles being held in a basin nestled in a pile of trash, WMAZ-TV reports. They wrote in an incident report that a woman identified as Baker's mother told deputies that Baker had left the turtles with her about two months ago. The mother agreed to hand the turtles over to deputies, saying she had been unable to get her son to retrieve them.A veterinarian said the turtles were suffering from long-term malnutrition, bacterial and fungal infections, sepsis and shell deformities.The turtles included 11 rare albino red-eared sliders, one brown red-eared slider and two pink-bellied side necks. There was also a Chinese golden thread turtle, which is considered endangered in the wild, but is legal to breed in captivity.Baker pleaded guilty in 2018 to one count of conspiracy to smuggle wildlife in federal court in South Carolina after postal inspectors at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York found 46 turtles concealed among noodles and candy in four packages in early 2016. The turtles would be placed in socks and shipped through the mail in boxes labeled “snacks.”Five other men pleaded guilty in the South Carolina court case, but officials described Baker as the ringleader. Federal officials say Baker was sending turtles from the United States to Hong Kong, as well as receiving turtles from Hong Kong. It's illegal to trade turtles abroad without a permit when they are protected by a treaty called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.Baker served more than two years in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release that ended in April 2022.Baker was also ordered to forfeit $263,225, which is what officials said the turtles were worth.。在 2022 年离职前，萨莱克曾长期负责谷歌的 TPU 业务，主导并交付了前七代 TPU 芯片。萨莱克还曾就职于英伟达，在离开谷歌后，萨莱克曾出任私募股权投资机构塞伯罗斯资本管理公司的高级董事总经理。目前，Anthropic 的芯片主要采购自英伟达、谷歌以及亚马逊等多家供应商。不过，这家总部位于旧金山的公司近期已释放出打造内部自研芯片业务的信号，并已启动相关岗位的招聘。IT之家获悉，与其他 AI 巨头类似，Anthropic 正全力扩充数据中心基础设施以支撑其发展野心。自研定制芯片不仅有望缓解供应链紧缺的压力，还能通过量身定制的硬件架构更好地匹配自身算法需求。其竞争对手、ChatGPT 的母公司 OpenAI 也在布局相同赛道。

二 | OpenAI 此前已公布了与博通联合研发的自研芯片“Jalapeño”，并计划于今年晚些时候正式投入使用。