Anthropic Builds Out Formidable Talent Bench

The number of ex-builders at Anthropic is increasing. These folks are working on models and the chips for training.  Names include:

Andrej Karpathy (of course, founding member of OpenAI and former Tesla AI lead)

Rahul Patil (ex Stripe CTO)

Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram and former CTO)

Peter Bailis (former CTO, Workday)

Clive Chan (Ex OpenAI hardware lead)

In Silicon Valley lingo - talent density is on the up.

Anthropic Reaches Deeper into Finance with PE backed services arm

Anthropic has reached deeper into workflow with a new venture embedding its technology into Enterprise Services.  Both Anthropic and OpenAI signed deals with private equity to embed their engineers (in Palantir-style forward-deployed fashion) into thousands of PE-backed portfolio companies - TPG, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital are the partners in this initiative. $5.5bn in capital has been committed.

UK Banks to be Briefed on Anthropic's Mythos Cyberthreat

The Bank of England, UK National Cyber Security Centre, HM Treasury and FCA will brief banks, insurers and exchanges in the UK on the cyber implications of Anthropic's new (non-publicly released) AI model, Mythos, which was revealed in April.  

The briefing will include CEOs of the UK's eight largest banks, two insurers and four financial infra providers. 

The model can exploit new-found vulnerabilities autonomously when instructed to do so. Bruce Schneier has observed this is "very much a PR play by Anthropic". It is curious that Anthropic seem to have not built in any guardrails against offensive security.

Anthropic's Series G Raises $30bn led by GIC and Coatue

The raise values Anthropic at $380bn post money (accounting for the fresh capital). Co-leaders of the round were DE Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ and MGX. But many other funds put up money too. Money will go into frontier research, product development and infrastructure expansion.

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