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Microsoft's Eric Boyd joins Anthropic as head of infrastructure
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Microsoft cloud executive Eric Boyd has jumped ship and is heading to Anthropic to serve as its head of infrastructure.
Key facts
- In February 2026, Anthropic raised $30 billion in Series G funding, giving the generative AI company a post-money valuation of $380bn
- Announcing the deal, Anthropic said its run-rate revenue (RRR) has reached $30bn, up from approximately $9bn at the end of 2025
- Earlier this month, Anthropic signed an agreement with Google and Broadcom that would see the development or lease of 3.5GW of TPUs, planned to come online from 2027
- He joined Anthropic shortly after the AI startup began hiring veteran cloud executives, per a report from The Information
Summary
Boyd shared his career change in a post on LinkedIn, writing: "I'm excited to join the amazing team at Anthropic today, where I'll be leading the Infrastructure team! "The combination of the absolute leading models with a culture that is committed to their mission is inspiring, and the reporter can't wait to lean in to help. Boyd started working at Microsoft in 2009. While leading the Azure AI team, Boyd assisted with the planning of the AI compute clusters for Microsoft that were used by OpenAI to train and run its models.