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Rahul Patil Joins Anthropic as CTO Amid Infrastructure Strain

10/3/2025

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Rahul Patil, former Stripe CTO, becomes Anthropic's chief technical officer.
He replaces co-founder Sam McCandlish, who becomes chief architect.
The move aims to boost collaboration across product-engineering, infrastructure, and inference teams.
Anthropic, facing OpenAI and Meta's infrastructure investments, has implemented Claude rate limits due to strain.
Patil brings over 20 years of engineering experience at Stripe, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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Story summary

Rahul Patil, former Stripe CTO, becomes Anthropic's chief technical officer.
He replaces co-founder Sam McCandlish, who becomes chief architect.
The move aims to boost collaboration across product-engineering, infrastructure, and inference teams.
Anthropic, facing OpenAI and Meta's infrastructure investments, has implemented Claude rate limits due to strain.
Patil brings over 20 years of engineering experience at Stripe, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft.