CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company develops the Claude family of large language models and has positioned itself as a leader in responsible AI development.
| Founded | January 2021 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
| Structure | Public Benefit Corporation |
| Employees | ~2,300 (Dec 2025) |
| Valuation | $183B (Sep 2025) |
| ARR | $9-10B |
Anthropic was founded by seven former OpenAI employees who left due to concerns about AI safety priorities and organizational direction. The founding team included:
| Model | Pricing | Key Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5/$25 per M tokens | Flagship - coding, agents, computer use |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3/$15 per M tokens | Balanced performance for coding |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1/$5 per M tokens | Fast, low-latency real-time |
| Claude Code | $500M ARR (2 months) | Agentic coding assistant |
Anthropic holds 32% of the enterprise LLM market and 41% of AI coding models market share. They are the only frontier model provider available across all three major cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
Built from 7 to 2,300 employees. Raised $27.3B. $183B valuation.
Led GPT-2, GPT-3 development. Co-invented RLHF technique.
Deep learning and neural networks research.
Deep learning research.
Neuroscience research on neural circuits.
Dario has been explicit about correcting misinformation regarding his departure:
"Leads through essay-length debates on Slack. Writes long-form essays laying out pros and cons of decisions. This approach gives Anthropic a coherent sense of direction across the entire company — a slower, more reflective counterpoint to Silicon Valley's often chaotic meeting culture."
One colleague noted: "Many people - or really the entire company - have a good model of how he's thinking."
| Name | Title | Background |
|---|---|---|
| Dario Amodei | CEO & Co-Founder | VP Research at OpenAI; Princeton PhD |
| Daniela Amodei | President & Co-Founder | VP Safety & Policy at OpenAI; Stripe |
| Jared Kaplan | Chief Science Officer | Johns Hopkins professor; theoretical physicist |
| Sam McCandlish | Chief Technology Officer | Head of Research at OpenAI; Stanford physics |
| Ami Vora | Chief Product Officer | Joined end of 2025; previously Instagram |
| Mike Krieger | Labs Lead | Co-founder of Instagram; CTO until 2018 |
| Tom Brown | Head of Core Resources | Lead author on GPT-3 paper at OpenAI |
| Chris Olah | Research Director | Google Brain; interpretability pioneer |
Anthropic is in hyper-growth mode with massive infrastructure spending. Decision-making involves technical validation from engineering/research teams. Best entry points: infrastructure scaling, talent acquisition, and enterprise tooling.
$13B+ allocated toward compute capacity. 1M+ Trainium2 chips on AWS, up to 1M TPUs on Google Cloud.
Triple international workforce. New offices in EMEA, APAC. Country leads for India, Australia/NZ, Korea, Singapore.
Expand 300K+ customer base. Large accounts (>$100K) grew 7x in past year.
Hired Wilson Sonsini. Preliminary talks with investment banks. Target: 2026.
Dario values deliberate, research-driven conversations. Reference his recent essays or interviews to show you've done your homework. He leads through written communication - long-form, thoughtful analysis resonates with him. Avoid framing anything as "doomer" — he explicitly pushes back on that label.
"AI is advancing too head-spinningly fast. I believe that these systems could change the world, fundamentally, within two years; in 10 years, all bets are off."
— Hard Fork (NYT), February 2025
"I think I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people. And this is one reason why I've always advocated for responsible and thoughtful regulation of the technology."
— 60 Minutes, 2025
"We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming. I don't think this is on people's radar."
— CBS News
A human researcher would need 3-5 days to compile this depth of intelligence.