Anthropic Hired 11 Top People in Six Months. Not One to Build a Product.
In half a year, from Karpathy to AlphaFold's John Jumper, eleven top-tier people walked into the same company. This post hands you a detective's method — read a hiring list and infer where an AI lab is betting for the next 12–18 months — plus one counterintuitive finding: on this roster, there isn't a single product hire.
Jul 17, 2026·11 min read