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Former OpenAI Stargate exec Shamez Hemani joins Anthropic after brief Meta Compute stint
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Shamez Hemani has joined Anthropic as a member of the technical staff.
Key facts
- Anthropic has ramped up its internal data center team and, in the past few months, signed a $35bn cloud agreement with Lambda, a $45bn deal with Nscale, $19bn with TeraWulf, and formed Theseus
- The Meta compute unit was set up in January with a pledge to build "tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time
- Shamez Hemani has joined Anthropic as a member of the technical staff
- As part of a broader reshuffle at the company, Hemani left, joining Meta alongside key Stargate figure Peter Hoeschele
Summary
Hemani was one of several senior OpenAI data center employees to leave the company in April, when he joined Meta's dedicated compute team. At OpenAI, where he spent nearly two and a half years, he was part of the Stargate compute and infrastructure team, responsible for helping build gigawatts of compute capacity for OpenAI’s research and product teams. As part of a broader reshuffle at the company, Hemani left, joining Meta alongside key Stargate figure Peter Hoeschele. The Meta compute unit was set up in January with a pledge to build "tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time.