Anthropic hires Orange's AI chief amid Europe push

June 25 (Reuters) - The artificial intelligence head of French telecoms group Orange has left the company to join U.S. AI startup Anthropic, he said on Thursday.

• Steve Jarrett, Orange's Chief AI officer, said he has accepted a job at Anthropic, without disclosing his new title

• Jarrett had been with the European telecoms group since 2019

• He will start at Anthropic on August 25 and will be based in Paris, according to a LinkedIn post

• Jarrett will initially help the company to "better understand and adapt" its products to the needs of the European and African market

• Anthropic opened its sixth European office in Milan last month

• The maker of the Claude and Mythos AI models, set to go public this year, is expanding in the continent amid plans to triple its international workforce

(Reporting by Gianluca Lo Nostro; Editing by Matt Scuffham)