Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic
Biography
Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Prior to that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI.
Career Timeline
Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur.
He was a member of the USA Physics Olympiad team in 2000.
From November 2014 until October 2015, he worked at Baidu.
In 2021, Dario and his sister, Daniela, founded Anthropic along with other former senior members of OpenAI.
In November 2023, the board of directors of OpenAI approached Amodei about replacing Sam Altman and potentially merging the two startups.
In October 2024, Amodei published an essay entitled "Machines of Loving Grace", in which he speculated about how AI could improve human welfare.
Time magazine listed Amodei as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2025, and again in 2026 alongside his sister Daniela.
As of May 2026,[update] Anthropic has an estimated value of $965 billion, with Forbes estimating Amodei's net worth to be $15.5 billion.
Key Achievements
- Led AI safety research at OpenAI prior to founding Anthropic
- Developed Constitutional AI to create safer, steerable language models
- Released the Claude family of models to directly rival GPT-4