Dario Amodei (Anthropic)

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the AI lab built by ex-OpenAI researchers to be the "safety-first" frontier company — and now a juggernaut living inside that contradiction.

Dario Amodei (born 1983), a physicist and former vice president of research at OpenAI, co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela (now president) and five other ex-OpenAI colleagues, citing directional differences over how safely and commercially AI was being built. Anthropic is a public-benefit corporation behind the Claude model family, known for Constitutional AI and interpretability research, and backed by Amazon and Google at a reported ~$380B valuation.

Notable achievements

• Co-founded Anthropic (2021) as a public-benefit corporation with a Long-Term Benefit Trust.
• Built Claude into one of the world’s most capable models, especially for coding.
• Pioneered Constitutional AI and funded serious interpretability research.
• Raised tens of billions from Amazon and Google to a reported ~$380B valuation.

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