The company counts multiple former OpenAI employees as staff members, including research lead Sam McCandlish, lead GPT-3 engineer Tom Brown, research scientist Amanda Askell, software engineer Catherine Olsson, policy director Jack Clark, technical staffers Tom Henighan, Kamal Ndousse, Benjamin Mann, and Nicholas Joseph.Ĭartograph.ai founder Andrew Jones is Anthropic’s only publicly listed employee who did not work at OpenAI. And we value impact – advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI – rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles.” In a job listing, Anthropic said: “We work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. “We’re thrilled to be working with investors that support us in this mission and expect to concentrate on research in the immediate term."Īnthropic said it will approach AI as an empirical science, adding that it was important to critically evaluate the potential societal impacts of the technology. “Anthropic’s goal is to make the fundamental research advances that will let us build more capable, general, and reliable AI systems, then deploy these systems in a way that benefits people,” Dario Amodei said.
SchismĪnthropic claims it will research the means to increase the safety of AI systems, focusing in particular on the reliability of large-scale AI models, making them more interpretable, and on allowing human feedback to influence the development and deployment of the models. Also taking part was Infotech's James McClave, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, the Center for Emerging Risk Research, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The funding round was led by Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype. Startup bills itself as a "safety and research" companyĪ startup has raised $124 million in a Series A round, on a promise of building reliable and steerable AI systems.Īnthropic was founded by OpenAI's former VP of research Dario Amodei, and his sister, Daniela, who previously worked as OpenAI's VP of safety and policy at least nine other OpenAI employees joined the young company.
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