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Work & Society · Oct 3, 2026
Anthropic announced it will put $100 million into the "Claude Frontier Academy" to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027. The money goes to the people who deploy its models rather than to the models themselves. It came in a week when rival models had drawn roughly level on performance and price. Ahead of its IPO, the move suggests Anthropic wants to present fast deployment and lasting customer adoption as its competitive strengths.