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Historical news article documenting Anthropic's founding moment in 2021, relevant for understanding the organizational origins of one of the leading AI safety-focused labs and the schism from OpenAI.
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Reports the founding of Anthropic in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei along with nine other OpenAI employees, following a $124M Series A round led by Jaan Tallinn. The company positioned itself as a safety-focused AI research lab aiming to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Key investors included Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt, and the Center for Emerging Risk Research.
Key Points
- •Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of Research Dario Amodei and VP of Safety Daniela Amodei, plus nine other OpenAI staff.
- •The $124M Series A was led by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, signaling strong EA/longtermist community backing.
- •Anthropic's stated mission centers on reliability, interpretability, and human feedback in large-scale AI model development.
- •The founding team included key GPT-3 contributors such as Tom Brown and researchers like Amanda Askell and Jack Clark.
- •The company framed AI development as an empirical science requiring critical evaluation of societal impacts.
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# Eleven OpenAI Employees Break Off to Establish Anthropic, Raise $124 Million
Startup bills itself as a "safety and research" company
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[Sebastian Moss](https://aibusiness.com/author/sebastian-moss)
June 2, 2021
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A startup has raised $124 million in a Series A round, on a promise of building reliable and steerable AI systems.
Anthropic 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.
The funding round was led by Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype. 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.
## Schism
Anthropic 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.
“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.
“We’re thrilled to be wor
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