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Anthropic launches with $124 million in funding
Former OpenAI staff set up a safety-focused lab that would later build Claude
Key facts
- Date
- 28 May 2021
- Era
- Prologue
- Interest
- Funding
- Threads
- Safety & governance, Labs & people
- Founders
- Dario Amodei (CEO), Daniela Amodei (President) and other former OpenAI staff
- Amount
- $124 million, led by Jaan Tallinn
- Other investors
- Including Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt, James McClave
- Structure
- Public benefit corporation
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees led by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, announced a $124 million Series A (its first major funding round) led by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn. It said it would research safer, more interpretable and steerable AI systems. It later released the Claude models.
Sources
- Anthropic, Anthropic raises $124 million to build more reliable, general AI systems, 2021-05-28
- TechCrunch, Anthropic is the new AI research outfit from OpenAI's Dario Amodei, and it has $124M to burn, 2021-05-28