Anthropic Acquires Vercept Engineering Team For Talent

Anthropic acquired Seattle startup Vercept’s engineering team in spring 2025, folding the roughly 15-person company into its Seattle operations after less than a year. The acqui-hire underscores a broader industry trend of large AI labs buying talent rather than products, intensifying concentration of machine-learning expertise and challenging independent startups' ability to compete on compute-intensive development.