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。    Two Florida brothers and another man were charged with federal kidnapping, waterboarding, and torturing a man despite knowing he was not the target of their plot, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.A man came out of his house on Oct. 13 in Plantation, Florida, and went into his apartment's parking garage between 7:30 and 8 a.m. when he was approached by three men, later identified as Jeffry Arista, Jonathan Arista, and Raymond Gomez, who brandished a firearm and told him to get in a black car with police lights, the complaint said."Jeffry Arista asked the victim to identify himself, implying they had kidnapped the wrong individual. The kidnappers further confirmed this when they removed the victim's wallet from his pocket and checked his identification. At this point, the kidnappers began inquiring why the coworker was using the victim's car this past Thursday and demanded to know where the money was," the criminal complaint, unsealed in the Southern District of Florida, said."The money was in reference to what the coworker allegedly owed the kidnappers. The kidnappers threatened the victim by putting an electric drill to his skin and pointing firearms towards his head," the complaint continued.The apartment the men allegedly brought the victim to was an Airbnb and at one point, the men brought the victim into the bathroom, laid him down, and poured water on his head -- "effectively waterboarding him," the complaint alleged.When they figured out it was in fact the wrong person, the men then allegedly "brainstormed" on how to get the correct person to them, which involved the victim being forced to call the correct target and make plans with him, according to the complaint.In order to solicit a large police presence, the victim went into his coworker's business on Oct. 14 and said he had a bomb, the complaint alleged. When law enforcement showed up, one of the alleged kidnappers was in the distance filming the victim, and the victim pointed out to law enforcement he was the one who allegedly kidnapped him.Law enforcement kept investigating the incident and Gomez was later arrested after he allegedly admitted to kidnapping the wrong person.Jeffry Arista and Jonathan Arista had their initial appearances in federal court on kidnapping charges on Monday. Gomez has not yet had a court appearance.Lawyers for the men did not respond to ABC News' request for comment.。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。

B | 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。

C | 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。