Sharon Zhou Leaves AMD for Anthropic

Nov 4, 2026
Sharon Zhou has joined Anthropic to work on frontier AI research after leading an AI research organization at AMD.

Sharon Zhou said in a LinkedIn post on November 4, 2026 that she has joined Anthropic to get back to frontier research and work on AI models. She did not disclose her title or specific responsibilities.

At AMD, Zhou built and ran an AI research organization that led the company's partnerships with frontier AI labs, where she was executive sponsor. Her team worked on reinforcement learning kernel optimization. She came to AMD with members of her startup Lamini.

Zhou wrote that this work showed her that pushing a frontier capability forward takes far fewer people than expected, and that it affected the compute that labs and companies can use with models such as Claude.

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