Anthropic founding story
by Evira: Dario Amodei
Six co-founders who worked on GPT-3 and scaling laws left OpenAI to build Anthropic from scratch, with safety at the center and humans central to generative AI. One of them is Dario, the speaker's brother.
Transcript (en)
We're so excited to have you on this program. I guess to start off, why did you start Anthropik? Well, first of all, thanks for having me. I've been looking forward to doing this really all week, really all month. So it's a pleasure to be here. I had six co-founders and we had all been working together at OpenAI and really kind of felt there was this opportunity for us to go start something on our own where we were really putting safety kind of at the center of all of the work that we had done. We were a cohesive team. We'd worked on GPT-3 and scaling laws, and we really felt like there was this kind of unique moment where we could kind of go off, build something really from scratch, where we were able to kind of ensure that safety and this kind of focus on making humans at the center of generative AI was something we could do. So one thing that's unique is one of your co-founders is also your brother. Can you tell a little bit more about how has it been working with a sibling? Yeah. So Dario and I are, I think, pretty unusually close for siblings. So we have been really close since we were little kids. And I think we always kind of had this dream of getting to work together on something. And our careers took fairly different paths. He sort of started, he's a physics PhD, and he really started his career on sort of that side of the house and eventually kind of moved into working in biophysics, thinking about ways to apply biophysics to health, and eventually moved into tech, worked at Google Brain. And I think at the same time, I was sort of going on this other path of working in global health. I spent time working in politics. And we both eventually sort of wound up in tech,
