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Meet the seven co-founders of Anthropic
CNBC • • business
Key Points:
- Anthropic, an AI company founded in 2021 by seven ex-OpenAI employees, is set to go public on November 19, with an anticipated valuation nearing $1.4 trillion, making it one of the largest IPOs in history.
- The founders, including siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, hold about 10% of the company, with each co-founder’s stake potentially worth $17 to $18 billion post-IPO.
- The founding team left OpenAI due to concerns over AI safety and commercialization priorities, aiming to develop AI with a stronger focus on ethical and safe advancement.
- Key founders bring diverse backgrounds, from computational neuroscience and physics to journalism and engineering, with notable contributions such as co-inventing reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and pioneering AI safety methods.
- Despite owning a minority of equity, the founders maintain majority voting control through a special legal structure and plan to allocate 80% of their personal wealth from Anthropic shares to philanthropy, alongside establishing a public benefit fund.
