Anthropic launches Claude Frontier Academy

Training includes a production project

The Academy announcement names initial cohorts from organizations including Accenture, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk. Participants are nominated engineers who arrive with a Claude project to lead in their own organization.

Training reaches a production project

1. 1
   Nominated engineer

   Arrives with an organization’s project

2. 2
   Simulated deployment

   Scope, security and handover

3. 3
   Practical assessment

   Passing engineers proceed

4. 4
   12-week residency

   Support a real production use case

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1. Nominated engineerArrives with an organization’s project
2. Simulated deploymentScope, security and handover
3. Practical assessmentPassing engineers proceed
4. 12-week residencySupport a real production use case

Anthropic · published 2026-10-02. Source-bound illustration, not a performance benchmark.

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The first program begins with in-person work on a simulated deployment, including use-case selection, security review and handover. Engineers who pass a practical assessment move into a 12-week residency supporting a real use case. The 10,000 figure is a training target, rather than a completed graduate count or a promise of open enrollment for everyone.