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Anthropic hires Microsoft's Azure AI chief to fix its infrastructure problems

Anthropic just poached Microsoft's Azure AI chief. Here's why infrastructure talent is the new battleground.

Reporting by The Decoder 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As AI companies scale, infrastructure leadership is becoming a critical competitive advantage. Anthropic's hire of a Microsoft Azure executive signals the company is addressing serious scaling challenges and competing directly for enterprise cloud talent.

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4 to know

  1. Eric Boyd hired from Microsoft as head of infrastructure

  2. Boyd was Azure AI chief at Microsoft

  3. Anthropic addressing infrastructure problems

  4. Executive poaching between Microsoft and Anthropic

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Publisher excerpt: Anthropic has hired Eric Boyd, a senior Microsoft executive, as its new head of infrastructure, Bloomberg reports.
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