Overview
- Former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil started this week as Anthropic’s chief technical officer, succeeding co‑founder Sam McCandlish.
- Patil will lead compute, infrastructure, inference and broader engineering responsibilities, with McCandlish moving to Chief Architect to focus on pre‑training and large‑scale model training.
- Anthropic is restructuring its core technical group to bring product engineering closer to infrastructure and inference teams under the new leadership.
- The shift follows rising demand on Claude services, including July usage limits that capped weekly Sonnet time at 240–480 hours and Opus 4 at 24–40 hours depending on system load.
- Industry scale pressures are intensifying, with Meta outlining $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure spending through 2028 and OpenAI pursuing similarly large contracts reported through Oracle’s Stargate project.