Who are the Amodeis?
Siblings who co-founded Anthropic in 2021. CEO and President.
Dario Amodei — CEO
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- PhD Computational Neuroscience, Princeton University
- Undergrad Physics, Stanford University
- 2021–present CEO and Co-founder, Anthropic
- 2016–2020 VP of Research, OpenAI
- 2014–2016 Research Scientist, Baidu AI Lab
Daniela Amodei — President
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- Education BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 2021–present President and Co-founder, Anthropic
- 2018–2020 OpenAI (safety, policy and operations leadership)
- 2013–2018 Stripe
- Focus Business operations, go-to-market, policy, organizational scaling
Anthropic
Co-founded in February 2021 by the Amodei siblings along with several former OpenAI researchers. The company focuses on AI safety research and building reliable, steerable AI systems.
Anthropic created Claude, an AI assistant that launched in March 2023. As of May 2026, the company has raised over $78 billion total and is valued at $965 billion, with run-rate revenue exceeding $47 billion. Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC in June 2026.
Notable publications (Dario)
- 2022 Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
- 2020 Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (co-author)
- 2026 The Adolescence of Technology (essay)
- 2024 Machines of Loving Grace (essay)
Daniela Amodei's public role
As President, Daniela oversees Anthropic's business operations, sales, policy engagement, and organizational growth. She has been the public face of Anthropic's enterprise strategy and government relations, speaking at major conferences on responsible AI deployment and building institutional trust.
She has emphasized that scaling an AI safety company requires the same operational rigor as scaling the technology itself — maintaining culture, governance, and safety commitments through rapid growth from 30 to 1,000+ employees.
More in the dedicated Daniela Amodei profile or the Daniela Amodei overview.