MOVES-Anthropic hires Orange's AI chief amid Europe push
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June 25 (Reuters) - 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
