@rohanpaul_ai: Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao: "Some of the most senior people within the finance team are actually the biggest users of to…
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Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao reveals that the finance team's biggest token users are senior executives, including the head of tax, who uses AI to automate tax policy engines and workloads.
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Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao:
“Some of the most senior people within the finance team are actually the biggest users of tokens.
I think our number one user is our head of tax, and he’s really focused on tax policy engines and automating large parts of the workloads that are happening within the team.“
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