Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer

🌈 Abstract

The article discusses Anthropic's hiring of Mike Krieger, the co-founder of Instagram, as its new chief product officer. It highlights Anthropic's efforts to compete with AI giants like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, and the company's focus on turning its core technology into products, particularly in the workplace.

🙋 Q&A

[01] Anthropic's Hiring of Mike Krieger

1. What is the significance of Anthropic hiring Mike Krieger as its new chief product officer?

• Krieger, the co-founder of Instagram, will oversee all of Anthropic's product efforts going forward
• His background in developing intuitive products and user experiences is expected to be invaluable as Anthropic creates new ways for people to interact with its AI model, Claude, particularly in the workplace

2. What are some of the challenges Anthropic is facing in the AI space?

• Anthropic has been primarily focused on building out its core technology for the last few years, but now needs to turn that tech into products
• The AI space is highly competitive, with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others racing to put AI models in everything
• The underlying tech is changing fast, and the products through which people use them are evolving even faster

3. How is Anthropic positioned to compete in the AI space?

• Anthropic has raised almost $8 billion, most of that in the last 12 months, and is in the process of raising even more
• Amazon is one of Anthropic's primary investors and partners, and Google is also a huge investor
• There have been rumors about Anthropic partnering with Apple on its efforts as well

[02] Anthropic's Product Efforts

1. What are some of the recent product releases and announcements from Anthropic?

• Anthropic recently released the Claude app for iOS, though it was long after a bunch of its competitors were available on mobile
• Anthropic has also announced support for use of Claude in Spanish, French, Italian, and German

2. What is the focus for Anthropic's product efforts going forward?

• Anthropic seems to understand that it needs to turn its core technology into products, and there's no time to waste
• Krieger's role as chief product officer is likely to focus on finding business-focused uses for Claude, at least initially