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.

US-China Trade War Hits Hardware Vendors' Bottom Line - Cisco, HP Enterprise and Dell

CISCO CEO, Los Gatos resident and Maths and Computing graduate Chuck Robbins (who succeeded John Chambers as CEO in July 2015), has blamed the macroeconomic climate for poor results. HPE made similar comments.