Established by former OpenAI leaders Dario and Daniela Amodei, Anthropic reached a $965 billion valuation following a $65 billion funding round that surpassed OpenAI. The company secured extensive backing from major technology corporations, including Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia, alongside prominent early tech investors. Tensions escalated sharply after Anthropic rejected Pentagon demands for unrestricted access to its Claude chatbot, leading President Trump to order federal agencies to cease using its systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth subsequently directed that the AI developer be designated a supply-chain risk.
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The Claude chatbot creator has garnered extensive investment backing from leading tech ti…: The Claude chatbot creator has garnered extensive investment backing from leading tech titans such as Alphabet and Amazon.
Anthropic refuses to allow military use of its artificial intelligence for lethal autonom…: Anthropic refuses to allow military use of its artificial intelligence for lethal autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance.
Federal agencies were ordered by President Trump to completely halt the use of Anthropic'…: Federal agencies were ordered by President Trump to completely halt the use of Anthropic's proprietary technology.
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Here are five things to know about the company behind the Claude chatbot:
- OpenAI exiles -
Anthropic's leaders learned to build AI at OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker, where they became known for their work on safety.
Dario Amodei joined the then-nonprofit in 2016, where he ran its safety team and a team studying "scaling laws." Scaling laws describe how AI models gain ability as they are trained on more data.
His younger sister Daniela joined OpenAI in 2018 and became vice president of safety and policy.
After disagreements with OpenAI leadership over how AI should be built, the Amodeis and several colleagues left in December 2020 and launched Anthropic four weeks later.
The bitter rivalry between the two San Francisco-based companies has continued since.
- Siblings and housemates -
Chief executive Dario Amodei and Daniela, the company's president, grew up in San Francisco's Mission District. Their father was a leather craftsman and their mother managed public library renovations.
According to the New York Times, two other Anthropic cofounders were the Amodeis' housemates in San Francisco before the OpenAI years:…
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