Rahul Patil has been appointed as the Chief Technology Officer of Anthropic, where he will lead the engineering organization responsible for products, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security, with a focus on scaling the company's AI platform, Claude, to meet global enterprise demands. Patil, formerly the CTO of Stripe, brings over 20 years of experience in building scalable and reliable infrastructure, having held senior roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Anthropic's co-founder and President, Daniela Amodei, emphasized the importance of building trustworthy AI systems, citing Patil's track record as key to supporting over 300,000 business customers. As part of this transition, Sam McCandlish, a co-founder of Anthropic, has transitioned to the role of Chief Architect, concentrating on large-scale model training and enhancing research productivity and reinforcement learning infrastructure.