Dario Amodei has worked in the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence labs: at Google, OpenAI, and now Anthropic. At OpenAI, Amodei drove the company’s core research strategy, building its GPT class of models for five years, until 2021 — a year before the launch of ChatGPT.
After quitting over differences about the future of the technology, he founded Anthropic, the AI start-up now known for its industry-leading chatbot, Claude.
Anthropic was valued at just over $18bn earlier this year and, last month, Amazon invested $4bn, taking its total to $8bn — its biggest-ever venture capital commitment. Amazon is working to embed Anthropic’s Claude models into the next-generation version of its Alexa speaker.