Founder Profile
Jared Kaplan
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Jared Kaplan?
Jared Kaplan is a founder of Anthropic PBC, which was founded in 2021 with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown, Chris Olah and Ben Mann.
- Company founded
- Anthropic PBC
- Founded
- 2021
- Co-founders
- Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown, Chris Olah and Ben Mann
Background
Jared Kaplan is a theoretical physicist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University. His work in high-energy physics and mathematical modelling led him to study neural networks as systems with measurable scaling behaviour, the approach behind the 2020 scaling laws paper.
Founding Story
Jared Kaplan is a co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Anthropic. He was a lead author of 'Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models' in 2020, which showed that model loss falls predictably as compute, data and parameter count increase. A former Johns Hopkins physics professor, he collaborated with OpenAI researchers on that work before co-founding Anthropic in January 2021, and now directs the science behind Claude training and alignment.
Education: Harvard University. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).