Anthropic
- HQ / base
- San Francisco
- Founded
- 2021
- Money
- $965B post-money (Series H, $65B, 2026); $132B total raised; ~$47B run-rate revenue
- Status
- —
Founded by the Amodei siblings + 5 OpenAI safety-team defectors (Kaplan, Olah, McCandlish, Brown, Mann...) as the 'safety-first' frontier lab; heavy early EA money (Moskovitz, Tallinn; FTX bought a ~$500M stake, later sold in bankruptcy at a profit). Invented RSPs, constitutional AI, interpretability program, model-welfare team. Endorsed SB 53; gave $20M to Public First Action; fought the Trump White House ('regulatory capture' — Sacks) and the Pentagon over usage limits. Karnofsky (2025) and half the EA policy bench now work there. Critics on the left call it safety-washing; critics on the right call it the EA capital fortress. Series G $30B at $380B (Feb 2026), Series H $65B at $965B (May 2026), IPO speculation.
Connections
- Amanda Askellfellow; leads Claude character and constitutional work
- Holden Karnofskyjoined 2025; married to president
- Daniela Amodeico-founder, president
- Dario Amodeico-founder, CEO
- Jack Clarkco-founder, policy head
- Chris Olahco-founder, interpretability
- Jan Leikealignment lead (2024–)
- Dustin Moskovitzearly investor
- Jaan Tallinnearly investor (Series A lead)
- FTX / Alameda Researchbought ~$500M stake (2022; sold in bankruptcy)
- Elizabeth Kellyjoined 2025 (approx)
- METRpre-deployment evaluator
- Redwood Researchalignment-faking/control collaborations
- Evan Hubingeralignment stress-testing lead
- Public First / Public First Action$20M (2025)
- Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA)endorsed SB 53
- Metaplanet Holdingsinvestor
- Joe Carlsmithjoined 2025 (approx)
- Eleos AI / digital-minds researchmodel-welfare collaboration orbit
- MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars)mentor/hiring pipeline
- Frontier Model Forum / AI Safety Fundmember
- Collective Intelligence ProjectCollective Constitutional AI
- Goodfirefirst startup investment by
- SecureBio / MIT Sculpting Evolutionbio-uplift evals collaboration
- Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)alumni staffing
- NVIDIAup to $10B investment (Nov 2025)
- Tarun Chhabrahead of national-security policy (2025)
- Dream NYCtop donor is Anthropic staffer ($790k)
- AnthroPACemployee-affiliated (per name/coverage)
- Avital BalwitChief of Staff to CEO
- Jared Kaplanco-founder and chief science officer; Responsible Scaling Officer
- Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT)purpose trust with authority to elect board seats