Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap

The first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic’s own engineers, starting with cohorts from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and others.

Today we are launching Claude Frontier Academy to solve one of the most pressing issues in AI implementation: talent. Backed by a $100 million commitment, Anthropic aims to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers (FDEs) by the end of 2027. Engineers from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk are in the first cohorts.

Every enterprise is racing to bring AI into its organization, but the people with the skills to make it work inside a real business have become the hardest talent to find. Inside the companies we work with, a small group of deeply skilled people drives an outsized share of what AI delivers. The Academy is the first of its kind from an AI company, built from our own work deploying Claude inside the world’s largest enterprises and the professional services organizations that serve them.

“A small team of high-agency people with the right skills, access to Claude, and a deep understanding of how their business runs can transform an entire company. The hard part is building that depth of talent, engineers with the highest level of AI fluency who can take Claude from an idea to a system in production and turn it into faster processes and new products and services. No AI company has invested in developing that talent inside its customers and partners at this depth. Claude Frontier Academy trains people the way our own engineers learn, and we want those who graduate to set the standard for how AI gets built inside a business.” – Steve Corfield, Global Head of Business Development and Partnerships at Anthropic

The first program trains 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers