Driving home from the Technology Alliance annual lunch in Seattle today, we were momentarily distracted by the big orange billboard for Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot, overlooking Highway 99 / Aurora Avenue.
Sure, tech billboards are commonplace in the Bay Area, but they’re a little more unusual in our neck of the woods. And the location was also interesting: a short distance from Facebook parent Meta’s cluster of Seattle office buildings.
As reported by GeekWire in March, Anthropic is hiring in the Seattle area, and by the looks of their jobs page, the number of open positions with the potential to be based here now exceeds 50 jobs, in a variety of roles.
Amazon has invested $4 billion into the San Francisco-based AI company as part of their partnership, and recently made Anthopic’s Claude 3 Opus model available through its AWS Bedrock platform.
