How old is Dario Amodei?

Dario Amodei was born in 1983 in San Francisco, so he is about 43.

Who founded Anthropic?

Dario Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei and other former OpenAI staff. It makes the Claude models.

Before Anthropic he was vice president of research at OpenAI, where he worked on GPT-2, GPT-3 and reinforcement learning from human feedback.

An essay Amodei published in October 2024 on how AI could improve human welfare.

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic

The AI researcher who co-founded Anthropic, the company behind Claude

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The facts people search for most about Dario Amodei, each with its source. Checked October 31, 2026.

Age
How old is Dario Amodei?
About 43¹
Dario Amodei was born in 1983 in San Francisco, so he is about 43.
Anthropic
Who founded Anthropic?
Dario and Daniela Amodei¹
Dario Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei and other former OpenAI staff. It makes the Claude models.
OpenAI
Did Dario Amodei work at OpenAI?
Yes, VP of research¹
Before Anthropic he was vice president of research at OpenAI, where he worked on GPT-2, GPT-3 and reinforcement learning from human feedback.
Essay
What is “Machines of Loving Grace”?
His October 2024 essay¹
An essay Amodei published in October 2024 on how AI could improve human welfare.

Dario Amodei is an American AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei.
He earned a physics degree at Stanford and a PhD in biophysics at Princeton, then worked on machine learning at Baidu and Google Brain from 2014 to 2016.
At OpenAI he was vice president of research and worked on GPT-2, GPT-3 and reinforcement learning from human feedback.
Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2025 and 2026.
He grew up in San Francisco, graduated from Lowell High School and was on the USA Physics Olympiad team in 2000. He started college at Caltech before transferring to Stanford.
He won a Hertz Foundation Fellowship in 2007 and the Hertz Thesis Prize in 2011 for his doctoral research on the electrophysiology of neural circuits. He was then a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
He joined OpenAI in 2016. In 2021 he and Daniela left to start Anthropic with five other former senior OpenAI staff, including Jared Kaplan and Chris Olah.
In November 2023, OpenAI’s board approached him about replacing Sam Altman and possibly merging the two companies. He declined both offers.
In October 2024 he published the essay “Machines of Loving Grace,” about how AI could improve human welfare. In September 2026 he called for the tech industry to slow the pace of AI development.

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