Dianne Penn, as Anthropic's first technical PM, helped ship every model from Claude 2 through Fable and incubated major products including Claude Code, MCP, Skills, computer use, tool use, and reasoning.

The guest biography establishes Dianne Penn's central role in Anthropic's product development from Claude 2 through Fable, and her incubation of key products. ✦ AI generated

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Dianne Penn is Head of Product for Anthropic's AI Research and Labs teams. She joined in 2023 as Anthropic's first technical product manager, when the entire product team was five engineers, and has since helped ship every model from Claude 2 through Fable, and helped incubate Claude Code, MCP, Skills, computer use, tool use, and reasoning.

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