MOVES-Anthropic hires Orange's AI chief amid Europe push

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- The artificial intelligence head of French telecoms group Orange ORAN.PA 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