AI startup Anthropic hires Airbnb veteran Krishna Rao as its first CFO, with funding from Google, Amazon, and others.

AI startup Anthropic appoints Airbnb veteran Krishna Rao as its first CFO, according to The Information. Rao previously served as CFO at Fanatics Commerce and held global head of corporate and business development roles at Airbnb. Anthropic has raised funding from Google, Amazon, and other venture capital firms, aiming to compete with OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT maker.