Microsoft Cloud Exec Joins Anthropic as Head of Infrastructure

Microsoft Cloud Exec Joins Anthropic as Head of Infrastructure

By Aaron Holmes
Publication Date: 2026-04-07 16:17:00

Longtime Microsoft executive Eric Boyd is joining Anthropic as the AI lab’s head of infrastructure, Boyd said on Tuesday.

Boyd has spent more than 18 years at Microsoft, and for the past several years has led engineering of hardware and software needed to host OpenAI and Anthropic models on its Azure cloud platform. In that role, he helped plan Microsoft’s initial construction of massive