Overview

• Anthropic hired Humanloop’s three cofounders—Raza Habib, Peter Hayes and Jordan Burgess—along with most of its engineers and researchers in an undisclosed-term acqui-hire.
• The company confirmed it did not acquire Humanloop’s assets or intellectual property, and it has not disclosed the deal terms.
• Humanloop has shut down its platform as its leadership and technical staff transition to Anthropic.
• Anthropic plans to leverage the team’s expertise to expand its enterprise and U.S. government sales, offering AI services to federal agencies for $1 in the first year.
• Humanloop’s capabilities in prompt management, LLM evaluation and observability will bolster Anthropic’s safety-first tooling and monitoring services.