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Anthropic to Invest $100 Million in Academy Aiming to Train 10,000 AI Engineers by 2027

Anthropic will put $100 million into the Claude Frontier Academy, a training program that aims to certify 10,000 engineers from its partner network by the end of 2027, starting with staff from Accenture, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-03 07:14

The program, called the Claude Frontier Academy, will draw its first participants from companies in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, the company said in a press release. Engineers from Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and several top consulting firms are included in the initial groups, according to CNBC.

Anthropic said the academy grew out of its existing work with businesses implementing Claude. "We hear our customers and partner organizations say, we need more people who can bring together familiarity and — with the enterprise tech and business context — and combine that with the highest level of AI fluency to solve the problems that need solving," Shambhavi Shambhavi, Anthropic's head of strategy and operations for partnerships, told CNBC.

Training will begin with an intensive "simulated enterprise deployment" that ends in a graded assessment. Those who pass will enter a residency modeled on medical teaching, in which software engineers learn from instructors and work through casework before being assessed and credentialed. The first engineers are expected to be certified in early 2027.

"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, Anthropic's global head of business development and partnerships, said in the release.

The announcement comes as Anthropic expands rapidly, with companies worldwide pushing its AI tools across their business units. The company is expected to reach the public market later this year and could reportedly seek a $2 trillion market capitalization. Reuters reported earlier this week, citing a leaked copy of the IPO prospectus, that Anthropic generated almost $4.6 billion in revenue last year while recording an operating loss of more than $8 billion.

Demand for AI engineering expertise has climbed across industries. Job postings for forward deployed engineers and other AI-related roles have surged in the finance sector this year, according to data from Draup provided exclusively to CNBC.