Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic.

Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic. He previously served as vice president of research at OpenAI and worked earlier at Google Brain. His work has focused on large language models, AI safety, and interpretability.

Early life and education

Amodei was born in 1983 and grew up in San Francisco, California. He studied physics at Stanford University and later earned a PhD in biophysics from Princeton University, where he was also a Hertz Fellow.

Career

Before co-founding Anthropic, Amodei worked as a senior research scientist at Google Brain and later as vice president of research at OpenAI. At OpenAI, he helped lead the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3.

Anthropic

In 2021, Amodei co-founded Anthropic with his sister Daniela Amodei and other former OpenAI employees. Anthropic focuses on building AI systems that are steerable, interpretable, and safe.

Notable work

Amodei is known for contributions to reinforcement learning from human feedback and for advocating AI safety research. His public profile is closely tied to the development of large language models and AI alignment.