Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei holds a PhD in biophysics from Princeton University and gained extensive experience as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. His profound background in scaling complex neural networks was forged during his time as a senior researcher at Google Brain and later as the Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he directed the teams that built GPT-2 and GPT-3, providing him with unmatched expertise in large language model scaling laws.

Dario Amodei is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic PBC. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent minds in modern artificial intelligence, Amodei previously served as the Vice President of Research at OpenAI. At OpenAI, he directed the core teams responsible for developing GPT-2 and GPT-3, as well as pioneering foundational research into AI scaling laws and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Driven by deep-seated convictions regarding the necessity of mathematical alignment and verifiable safety standards in frontier models, Amodei departed OpenAI in late 2020 alongside senior research colleagues to establish Anthropic as a Public Benefit Corporation. Under his leadership as CEO, Anthropic has raised more than $12 billion in institutional capital, secured anchor cloud infrastructure partnerships with Amazon and Google, and developed the Claude family of foundation models. Amodei is an active voice in international AI governance, having testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and consulted with heads of state on frontier AI risk mitigation.