Enterprise AI needs more than an AI engineer

Anthropic has a $100 million plan to help enterprises get more from AI. No, it doesn’t involve agents. It involves people. Lots of people. How retro. On October 2, the company announced Claude Frontier Academy, with a goal of training 10,000 frontier deployed engineers by the end of 2027. Participants work through a simulated deployment, including use-case selection, security review, and handover, before undertaking a 12-week residency on a real project at their own company. For a business selling increasingly capable models, it’s telling that Anthropic recognizes some of the thorniest problem