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Anthropic Hires Krishna Rao As Chief Financial Officer and Mike Krieger As Chief Product Officer

PRIVATEMay 23, 2024•about 2 years ago

Position

Chief Financial Officer

Company

Anthropic

Krishna Rao
San FranciscoArtificial IntelligenceArtificial IntelligenceCyber SecurityMachine LearningMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingPrivate Equity FundPrivate Equity FundPrivate Equity FundPrivate Equity FundPrivate Equity FundPrivate Equity FundVenture Capital FundVenture Capital FundVenture Capital FundVenture Capital FundVenture Capital FundVenture Capital FundVenture Capital FundVenture Capital Fund

Description

Anthropic has appointed Krishna Rao, previously CFO at digital sports platform Fanatics Commerce and global head of corporate and business development at Airbnb, as its first finance chief. Additionally, the company has also named Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, as its chief product officer to further enhance its product offerings.

Company Information

Company

Anthropic

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Anthropic is an AI-driven research company that focuses on increasing the safety of AI systems. Its research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability. The initial product from the company is Claude, an AI helper for tasks of any size.

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