Anthropic is making a $100 million bet on deployed AI engineers, and it seeks 5 key attributes
Source: Business Insider ·
Anthropic invests $100M in training engineers to boost AI adoption, aiming to develop 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers (FDEs) by 2027.
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Anthropic's developer conference in May.Don Feria/AP Content Services for AnthropicAnthropic is putting $100 million into a new training program for other companies' workers.The push is an effort to create more "deployed engineers," who can ramp up AI usage at companies.Executives explained the program and described the ideal forward-deployed engineer.Forward-deployed engineers are all the rage in AI, and Anthropic is going to other companies to train up top talent.The AI company announced a $100 million investment into an FDE training initiative earlier this month. It's a quasi-fellowship that engineers from other firms have already begun applying for. They'll attend four-day on-site intensives and then complete 12-week "residencies" working with Anthropic's Claude tools at their own companies. The company says it hopes to train 10,000 people through the program by the end of 2027.As Anthropic approaches its gigantic initial public offering, it's using the new training model to get…