# Raza Habib

> Raza Habib is a machine learning researcher, Humanloop co-founder and former CEO who joined Anthropic in August 2025. Educated in physics at Cambridge and machine learning at UCL, he worked at Monolith AI and Google before building tools for human-guided AI development. He also hosts High Agency, a podcast about building practical AI products.

- **Role:** At Anthropic; co-founder and former CEO of Humanloop
- **Organizations:** Anthropic, Humanloop, Monolith AI, Google, UCL
- **Education:** BA (Hons) and MSci, Natural Sciences / Physical Sciences, University of Cambridge, MSc, Machine Learning and Computational Statistics, UCL, PhD, Machine Learning; thesis: Advances in Probabilistic Deep Learning, UCL
- **Known for:** Completed a UCL PhD in probabilistic deep learning in 2022., Co-founded Humanloop and participated in YC Summer 2020., Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Technology in 2022.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2020** — Founding engineer at Monolith AI and work on speech systems at Google.
- **2018** — Teaching assistant at UCL for a DeepMind-led deep learning and reinforcement learning course.
- **2020** — Co-founded Humanloop, a UCL spinout; joined YC Summer 2020.
- **2022** — Completed UCL doctorate; Humanloop explored its pivot to LLM application development.
- **2023** — Humanloop decided late in the year to establish a San Francisco office.
- **2024** — Launched High Agency in June.
- **2025** — Joined Anthropic with Humanloop co-founders and colleagues in August.

## Achievements

- Completed a UCL PhD in probabilistic deep learning in 2022.
- Co-founded Humanloop and participated in YC Summer 2020.
- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Technology in 2022.
- Built Humanloop tools used by Gusto, Vanta and Duolingo.
- Launched the High Agency podcast for AI builders.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Humanloop announced that its team, including Habib, was joining Anthropic.
- **2025-09** — Humanloop’s announced platform sunset date was September 8, 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://razcle.github.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/humanloop-raza/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/RazRazcle
- GitHub: https://github.com/razcle
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@builtwithhumanloop

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Last updated: 2026-10-11