OpenAI Rival Anthropic Taps Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger as Product Head - Bloomberg

OpenAI Rival Anthropic Taps Instagram Co-Founder as Product Head

  • Mike Krieger previously worked as CTO at Meta’s Instagram
  • Anthropic is making a push to bring its chatbot to businesses

Mike Krieger

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Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger to be its new product chief, part of a broader push to bring its AI services to more users and businesses.

Krieger, who previously served as chief technology officer at Meta Platforms Inc.-owned Instagram, will oversee Anthropic’s product engineering, product management and design functions, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Krieger will help “expand our suite of enterprise applications and bring Claude to a wider audience,” the company said.