Anthropic Poaches Microsoft Executive to Lead Infrastructure

Anthropic PBC has hired a senior leader from Microsoft Corp. to lead its push to establish the infrastructure needed to support growing adoption of its artificial intelligence services.

Eric Boyd will serve as head of infrastructure at Anthropic, according to a post on his LinkedIn Tuesday. “AI is accelerating at an incredible pace,” he wrote. “The impact of Claude Code in the last 6 months, and particularly the last two months, just shows the power of what is possible.”

Anthropic has seen strong growth in demand for its AI products, including Claude Code, which helps streamline the process of writing ...