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Anthropic

Anthropic was founded in 2021 in San Francisco, USA by Ben Mann, Benjamin Mann, Chris Olah, Christopher Olah and 7 others. It is an Artificial Intelligence company.

AI safety company developing large language models including the Claude family.

Private 🦄 Unicorn Founded 2021 San Francisco USA Artificial Intelligence
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Anthropic founders & co-founders

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Ben Mann
Co-founder
 B
Benjamin Mann
Co-founder
 C
Chris Olah
Co-founder
 C
Christopher Olah
Co-founder
 D
Daniela Amodei
Co-founder & President
 D
Dario Amodei
Co-founder & CEO
 J
Jack Clark
Co-founder
 J
Jared Kaplan
Co-founder
 S
Sam McCandlish
Co-founder
 T
Tom Brown
Co-founder
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Tom Henighan
Co-founder

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced Anthropic’s founders.

Google OpenAI Stripe Baidu

What happened to Anthropic’s founders and alumni

3 companies

People who worked at or founded Anthropic and went on to start their own companies.

J 2 founded
OpenAI 2015 Thinking Machines Lab 2025
T 1 founded
SolidStage 2012

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