Anthropic has a new Chief Technical Officer, the CTO Rahul Patil trains strip. Patil started the company at the beginning of this week, taking over from the co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move on to a new role as the architect head.
As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of his main technical group, bringing the company’s product engineering team in close contact with infrastructure and inference teams. Like CTO, Patil will supervise the calculation, infrastructure, inference and a variety of other engineering activities. In the role of Chief Architect, McCandlish will work on the formation of the pre-training model and on a large scale, extending much of his previous work. Both Patil and McCandlish will report to anthropic president Daniela Amodei.
This new leadership structure comes when the anthropic faces intense infrastructure competition from Ai Labs of Openai and Meta, which have invested billions in computer infrastructures. Mark Zuckerberg said that destination It plans to spend $ 600 billion On the US infrastructure until the end of 2028 and Openii contracted a similar love through his work with Oracle and The Stargate Project. The scope of spending on anthropic infrastructures is less clear, but there will be a huge printing to optimize the growing infrastructure both for speed and energy consumption.
At the same time, the popularity of the Claude di Anthropic products has put the company’s infrastructure in order to mean. In JulyThe company has introduced new tariff limits to the Claude code, with an eye to Power users who had managed the app “continuously in the background, 24/7”. According to the new rules, users are limited between 240 and 480 hours of using the sonnet every week and between 24 and 40 hours of use of Opus 4, depending on the voltage of the infrastructure.
With more than 20 years in different engineering roles, Patil brings an infrastructure experience that means anthropic. Previously he spent five years in technical roles near Stripe and worked as a senior vice president for the cloud infrastructure near Oracle. He also covered engineering roles at Amazon and Microsoft.
In a state, Amodei underlined Patil’s experience by building stable infrastructures for companies. “Rahul brings a proven experience in the construction and downsizing of the reliable infrastructure type that companies need,” reads Stament. “I couldn’t be more enthusiastic than it means to strengthen Claude’s position as the main intelligence platform for businesses.”
In a coupled state, Patil has applauded anthropian research and commitment for safety. “I am raped to join anthropic in this fundamental moment in the development of the AI,” Patil said, adding that working in society “seems the most important job that I could do at this moment – personally I can’t think of a call and greater responsibility”.
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