Anthropic Hires New CTO To Strengthen AI Infrastructure

Anthropic Hires New CTO To Strengthen AI Infrastructure

Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure — former Stripe executive Rahul Patil , who officially joined the company this week. Patil takes over from co-founder Sam McCandlish , who transitions into a new role as Chief Architect , signaling a major restructuring of Anthropic’s engineering leadership. Image Credits:Anthropic A New Era Of Technical Leadership Patil’s appointment marks a strategic move as Anthropic scales its AI systems to meet surging demand. The company plans to integrate its product-engineering , infrastructure , and inference teams under a single leadership umbrella. As the new CTO, Patil will oversee compute optimization , AI infrastructure , and inference operations — the backbone of Anthropic’s Claude AI ecosystem. Meanwhile, McCandlish will focus on large-scale model training and pre-training architecture , continuing his deep involvement in core model development. Both executives will report directly to Anthropic President Daniela Amodei . Why The Change Matters …