Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind Claude
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Dario Amodei is an American AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Anthropic with his sister Daniela in 2021 and is its CEO. Anthropic develops the Claude family of AI models and focuses on AI safety. He previously led research on GPT-2 and GPT-3 at OpenAI.
Biography
Background
Amodei grew up in San Francisco; his father was an Italian leather craftsman. He studied physics at Stanford and earned a PhD in biophysics at Princeton, studying neural circuits, then worked at Stanford’s medical school.
Baidu, Google and OpenAI
He worked on speech recognition at Baidu with Andrew Ng and at Google Brain. Joining OpenAI in 2016, he became vice-president of research and led work on GPT-2 and GPT-3 and on scaling laws.
Anthropic
In 2021 he and Daniela, with other OpenAI researchers, founded Anthropic as a public-benefit corporation focused on safety. It released Claude in 2023 and introduced ideas such as “constitutional AI” and a responsible scaling policy.
Views
His 2024 essay “Machines of Loving Grace” described how powerful AI could speed science and medicine. He has warned about AI risks and argued for export controls on advanced chips. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in 2025 and 2026.
Timeline
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1983
Born in San Francisco, California, United States
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2011
PhD from Princeton
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2014
Joins Baidu
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2016
Joins OpenAI
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2020
GPT-3 paper
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2021
Co-founds Anthropic
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2023
Claude released
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2024
Machines of Loving Grace essay
Notable works
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2020
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3) Paper
Co-author.
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2024
Machines of Loving Grace Essay
Did you know?
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1
He trained as a physicist before moving into AI.
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2
Anthropic’s models are named Claude.
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3
He co-authored the influential 2016 paper “Concrete Problems in AI Safety”.
Connections
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Frequently asked
Who is Dario Amodei?
Dario Amodei is an American AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Anthropic with his sister Daniela in 2021 and is its CEO. Anthropic develops the Claude family of AI models and focuses on AI safety. He previously led research on GPT-2 and GPT-3 at OpenAI.
How old is Dario Amodei?
Dario Amodei is 43 years old, born on 13 January 1983 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Where is Dario Amodei from?
Dario Amodei was born in San Francisco, California, United States.
What is Dario Amodei known for?
Dario Amodei is best known for Co-founding Anthropic (2021); Claude models; former OpenAI research vice-president; essay “Machines of Loving Grace”.
References
- Dario Amodei — Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
- Official website. darioamodei.com. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
- Dario Amodei (Q103335665) — structured data. Wikidata. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
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