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Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei

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About Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei is the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. Before founding Anthropic in 2021, he served as VP of Research at OpenAI, where he led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3.

Career Highlights

  • Anthropic (2021-present): Co-founder and CEO
  • OpenAI (2016-2021): VP of Research, led GPT-2 and GPT-3 development
  • Baidu (2014-2016): Senior Research Scientist
  • Princeton/Stanford: PhD in Computational Neuroscience

Notable Positions

On AI Economics (2025)

At the Dealbook Summit, Amodei gave his most candid assessment of AI economics:

"If I'm really dumb and I extrapolate the pattern, 10 to 100 billion. I don't believe that."

He describes a "cone of uncertainty" where Anthropic's 2026 revenue could land anywhere from $20B to $50B, while data centers take 2 years to build.

On Enterprise vs Consumer

Amodei has positioned Anthropic firmly in the enterprise market:

"Surprising how different the personality and capabilities of the models are if you're building for businesses versus consumers."

On Internal AI Usage

"I've had internal people at Anthropic say 'I don't write any code anymore. I don't open up an editor. I just let Claude Code write the first draft and all I do is edit it.'"

Key Quotes

  • "There's a cone of uncertainty - revenue could be $20B or $50B."
  • "Some players are yoloing things."
  • "Enterprise is where the margins are."