Anthropic posted, then swiftly deleted, a $450,000 sales job aimed at its 'mega' customer Meta

Anthropic posted — and past deleted — a occupation listing for a salesperson tasked pinch trading to Meta, its AI rival and 1 of its largest customers.

The listing, titled "Mega Account Executive, Meta," appeared connected Anthropic's occupation committee astatine a delicate infinitesimal for the companies' relationship.

Meta still spends hundreds of millions of dollars a period arsenic Anthropic's customer, according to a caller New York Times report. But it's besides trying to trim its reliance connected Anthropic's AI tools arsenic Anthropic is shoring up its finances up of a monolithic first nationalist offering.

The station suggests Anthropic is betting Meta will stay a awesome customer moreover arsenic Meta builds more tin AI models of its own.

After Business Insider asked Anthropic astir the listing connected Wednesday, the institution pulled it down. Anthropic and Meta declined to comment.

Anthropic's occupation posting offered an yearly net of $380,000 to $450,000, and didn't mention Meta extracurricular the title. It said the salesperson would "win caller business and thrust gross wrong a book of strategical integer autochthonal accounts."

The listing stands retired for its specificity. Other Anthropic relationship executive openings target wide regions aliases sectors, including startups successful Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, aliases the nationalist assemblage successful Southeast Asia.

Anthropic's AI coding tool, Claude Code, became celebrated crossed Silicon Valley, including astatine Meta, this year. One soul projection said Meta could walk $10 cardinal annually connected Anthropic, the Times reported. Meta's caput of AI product, Nat Friedman, told labor that if Meta decreased its reliance connected Anthropic's tools, it could deed Anthropic's gross arsenic it approaches its IPO, the study said.

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