Samuel O'Brient
4 min read
Anthropic rivals experience growing AI worker problem originally appeared on TheStreet.
Many tech companies have announced layoffs over the past few months. In the case of Microsoft, (MSFT) it's happened more than once.
The rise of artificial intelligence has upended the job market in undeniable ways, prompting companies to either completely automate away some positions or scale back their hiring in other areas while increasing their reliance on chatbots and AI agents.
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As more and more companies opt for job cuts and shift focus toward implementing an AI-first strategy, questions abound as to which jobs will survive this technology revolution. The number of companies embracing this method includes prominent names such as Shopify and Box.
Not every tech company is slashing its workforce, though. AI startup Anthropic isn’t slowing down on its hiring. In fact, it is successfully attracting talent for several industry leaders, launching a new battle for AI talent as the industry continues to boom.
Founded in 2021, Anthropic is still a fairly new company, although it is making waves in the AI market. Often considered a rival to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, it is best known for producing the Claude family, a group of large language models (LLMs) that have become extremely popular, particularly in the tech community.
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Anthropic describes itself as an AI safety and research company with a focus on creating “reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.” Most recently, though, it has been in the spotlight after CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI will wipe out many entry-level white-collar jobs.
Even so, Amodei’s own company is currently hiring workers for many different areas, including policy, finance, and marketing. But recent reports indicate that Anthropic has been on an engineering hiring spree as well lately, successfully poaching talent from two of its primary competitors.
Venture capital firm SignalFire recently released its State of Talent Report for 2025, in which it examined hiring trends in the tech sector. This year’s report showed that in an industry dependent on highly skilled engineers, Anthropic isn’t just successfully hiring the best talent; it is retaining it.
According to SignalFire’s data, 80% of the employees hired by Anthropic at least two years remain with the startup. While DeepMind is just behind it with a 78% retention rate, OpenAI trails both with only 78%, despite ChatGPT’s popularity among broad ranges of users.
