Anthropogenic began restructuring its leadership and organization in early 2026 as it prepares for it a potential IPO. The company, which could go public as early as October at a valuation of up to $630 billion, has recently pulled ahead of competitors in revenue. Its annual run rate (a forecast of annual revenue based on actual quarterly performance) topped $30 billion in April, more than tripling the figure by the end of 2025 and beyond OpenAIreported $25 billion. The number of employees has grown as well, with roughly 2,300 employees at the end of last year, more than double its size just a few months ago. Together, these changes reflect an increasing emphasis on both rapid experimentation and commercial scale, while maintaining security as a core differentiator.
A key part of this restructuring is the creation of Anthropic Labs in January, a research and development unit focused on incubating experimental products at the edge of Claude’s capabilities. One of his first major decisions was to stop the public release of his most advanced model, the Claude Mythos, because of its ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Instead, the company is following a limited extension, known as Project Glasswing, giving access to more than 50 organizations, incl Microsoft AND Nvidiato help strengthen cyber defenses.
These structural changes are closely linked to a wider leadership reshuffle, including the promotion of the former head of product Mike Krieger to co-direct Anthropic Labs.
“Krieger is someone who knows how to build products that stick,” Div Gargfounder and CEO of hardware superintelligence company AGI, Inc., told the Observer. “At this stage, the limitation is not the quality of the model. The limitation is turning the capability into things that people use and pay for, repeatedly, at scale.”
Mike Krieger and Ben Mann co-run Anthropic Labs
Krieger, Anthropic’s former chief product officer and a co-founder of Instagrammoved on to co-lead Anthropic Labs at its launch earlier this year. At Instagram, he served as chief technology officer and later co-founded the news app Artifactwhich he sold to Yahoo in 2024. A native of Brazil, Krieger is one Stanford University former student.
Ben Mana co-founder of Anthropic, previously helped architect GPT-3 at OpenAI and worked as a software engineer at Google. Before moving to Labs, he served as Anthropic’s lead product engineer, focusing on AI deployment and damage mitigation. Mann graduated from Columbia University.
At Anthropic Labs, Krieger and Mann oversee a number of high-stakes initiatives, including the introduction and controlled governance of the Claude Mythos, the company’s most advanced model. While Mythos can significantly strengthen cybersecurity by identifying and exploiting software vulnerabilities, it also poses risks if misused. To manage that tension, Anthropic has opted for a limited release under Project Glasswing.
By creating the Labs and naming them, Anthropic has “proper structure in place to support the most critical moves for our product organization – discovering experimental products at the edge of Claude’s capabilities and scaling them responsibly,” Anthropic president Daniela Amodei wrote in an announcement.
Ami Vora replaces Mike Krieger as CPO
After Krieger’s move to Anthropic Labs, Ami Vora has taken on the role of chief product officer. She joined the company in December 2025 as a product manager and was quickly promoted. Vora previously spent 15 years in Metawhere she held leadership roles, including vice president of product at Facebook and vice president of product and design at WhatsApp. She began her career at Microsoft and remains on the board of the cloud monitoring platform Datadog.
As CPO, Vora works closely with the Chief Technology Officer Rahul Patil to scale Claude beyond experimentation and expand Anthropic’s market presence.
Rahul Patil stays on as CTO, with an expanded role
Anthropic’s broadest leadership bench remains deep, with all seven co-founders still in the company. Rahul Patil, who became CTO in October, succeeded Sam McCandlishnow chief architect. Patil previously served as CTO of Tape and has led engineering teams at Microsoft, AWS and The burden. Now working closely with Vora, Patil is focused on bridging the gap between technical research and production-ready products.
As Anthropic approaches a potential IPO, this alignment is increasingly critical. “Anthropic has decided that the frontier lab model only goes so far,” he said AGI, Inc Garg. “My reading is that Anthropic is gearing up for a more competitive trading phase, perhaps regardless of the timing of the IPO.”
Other leaders shaping Anthropic’s future
- Dario AmodeiCEO and co-founder: Dario Amodei previously served as vice president of research at OpenAI. He founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister, Daniela, and other former OpenAI colleagues.
- Daniela Amodei, president and co-founder: Daniela Amodei, who previously served as vice president of security and policy at OpenAI, oversees Anthropic’s core operations, including chief technology officer Rahul Patil and chief architect Sam McCandlish.
- Jared Kaplanchief science officer and co-founder: Anthropic co-founder and former OpenAI researcher Jared Kaplan serves as chief science officer. Since 2024, he has also served as the company’s chief scaling officer, helping to guide security-related decisions.
- Jan Leikeextension science direction: Jan Leike, who co-led OpenAI’s superline team, has served as Anthropic’s head of extension science since 2024.
- Sam McCandlish, lead architect and co-founder: Another former OpenAI employee, Sam McCandlish focuses on training models and developing large-scale systems. He previously served as CTO of Anthropic.
- Tom BrownCIO and Co-Founder: Former OpenAI GPT-3 researcher Tom Brown oversees Anthropic’s computing infrastructure.
- Vitaly GudanetsWHAT: Vitaly Gudanets has served as Anthropic’s chief information security officer since September. He previously led security efforts at Netflix.
- Jack Clarkchief policy officer and co-founder: A former OpenAI policy director and technology journalist, Jack Clark leads Anthropic’s policy work.
- Krishna RaoCFO: Krishna Rao joined Anthropic as chief financial officer in 2024 after previously leading finance at Airbnb.
- Christopher Olahleader and co-founder of interpretability research: Christopher Olah, a former interpretability lead at OpenAI, leads Anthropic’s interpretability research, focusing on model transparency and AI security.
Anthropic’s board and trust
In February, Antropic appointed Chris Liddella former White House deputy chief of staff and former CFO at Microsoft and General Motorson its board of directors. Daniela Amodei said that Liddell has “a track record of helping organizations get (technology, public service and governance) right when the stakes are highest.”
The rest of the board remains unchanged, including Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Jasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, Reed Hastings and Chris Liddell. The long-term benefit trust was recently removed Kanika Bahl AND Zach Robinson and added Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar; Neil Buddy Shah remains on the trust board.
