Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, draws job applicants from diverse backgrounds beyond traditional tech, including former schoolteachers, physicists, and policy experts. The company's unconventional recruiting seeks candidates with broad intellectual curiosity and adaptability rather than just standard engineering credentials, reflecting its focus on building safe and capable AI systems.
Anthropic announced a run rate revenue of $47 billion, raised $65 billion in a Series H round, and achieved a post-money valuation of $965 billion.
Simon Willison argues Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit through enterprise coding agents. Both companies shifted to API-based enterprise pricing, and recent models cost more. Stories of Uber blowing its AI budget and Microsoft canceling Claude Code licenses suggest customers are paying high prices for genuinely useful tools, making April 2026 a new revenue inflection point.