Scoop: Anthropic promotes Sasha de Marigny to chief communications officer
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Anthropic has promoted Sasha de Marigny to chief communications officer, Axios is first to report.
Why it matters: de Marigny's team is working to differentiate Anthropic from its AI competitors.
The big picture: CEO Dario Amodei is positioning himself as an AI realist, while the brand team is working to position Claude — Anthropic's large language model — as the responsible AI tool.
State of play: Amodei has been among the most vocal tech executives to warn of job displacement in the age of AI. He said that roughly half of white-collar jobs could be wiped out over the next five years.
- Amodei has also taken a hard stance on export controls to China. "It is mortgaging our future as a country to sell these chips to China," he said at a recent Axios event.
- Anthropic also recently disclosed it had detected the first case of a foreign government using Claude to fully automate a cyberattack.
It's the type of crisis most PR teams would bury. Anthropic's team wrote a blog post.
Between the lines: The communications and brand team's expansion reflects the company's overall growth.
- Anthropic recently raised $13 billion in its Series F round and this week landed $15 billion investment from Microsoft and Nvidia.
- The company hit $7 billion in revenue run rate in October
Zoom in: de Marigny reports to Anthropic president Daniela Amodei, and is the first to hold CCO title.
- In this role, she will oversee the communications, editorial and brand teams.
- de Marigny was the first comms hire at Anthropic and was most recently the head of communications and brand. Before joining Anthropic, she led brand communications at Thrive Capital and Stripe, where she co-built Stripe Press.
What to watch: Anthropic has been on a hiring spree, with the comms and brand team tripling in size this year, totaling about 80 people.
- Anthropic has eight open roles on the team as it looks to expand into international markets.
Editor's note: This story was corrected to reflect Anthropic hit $7 billion in revenue run rate (not projected revenue) in October.
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