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Dario Amodei - Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic

By Kamal Kashyap • Jul 02, 2026
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Dario Amodei is an Italian-American AI researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the creators of the Claude LLM.

Introduction

Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and co-founder of Anthropic. He previously worked at OpenAI as the Vice President of Research, where he led the development of core language models before leaving to focus specifically on steerable and safe AI systems.

Education & Research

Amodei received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and earned a PhD in biophysics from Princeton University. He conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford, developing specialized neural network models and computational analysis pipelines.

Founding Anthropic

Concerned about safety issues and corporate alignment at OpenAI, Amodei departed in 2021 with his sister Daniela to found Anthropic. The company launched Claude, an AI system that implements Constitutional AI, a training method designed to align AI with human values.

Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei
Company Anthropic
Country United States
Born May 17, 1983 (age 43)
San Francisco, California
Education Stanford University, Princeton University (PhD)
Notable work Claude, GPT-2, GPT-3, AI Safety research
Title Co-founder & CEO of Anthropic

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