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