Anthropic hires Orange's AI chief amid Europe push

The artificial intelligence head of French telecoms group Orange has left the company to join U.S. AI startup Anthropic, he said on Thursday.

‌Steve ⁠Jarrett, ⁠Orange's Chief AI officer, said he has accepted a job at Anthropic, without disclosing his new title

Jarrett had been with the European ​telecoms group since ⁠2019


He ‌will start at ​Anthropic ​on August 25 and ⁠will be based in Paris, according ​to a LinkedIn post

Jarrett ​will initially help the company to "better understand and adapt" its products to the needs of the European and ‌African market

Anthropic opened its sixth European office in ​Milan ​last month

⁠The maker of the Claude and Mythos AI models, set to go ​public this year, is expanding in the continent amid plans to triple its international workforce.