AI BriefingRahul Patil Joins Anthropic as CTO
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Former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil has joined Anthropic as the new CTO, overseeing the engineering organization.
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Anthropic has brought on Rahul Patil as its new CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Rahul Patil will lead the engineering organization spanning product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security, taking on the role of scaling Claude to meet the needs of enterprise customers worldwide.
Most recently, he served as CTO of Stripe, leading the technology organization that processes over $1 trillion in payments annually, and previously held senior engineering leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, building expertise in constructing large-scale, mission-critical systems.
Alongside this appointment, co-founder and former CTO Sam McCandlish is transitioning to the role of Chief Architect. Sam will focus on training large-scale models, continuing to lead pretraining while expanding his scope to include research productivity and RL (reinforcement learning) infrastructure.
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