Meet the seven co-founders of Anthropic

Anthropic’s seven co-founders, who left OpenAI over concerns about its approach to AI safety and commercialisation, could each become worth many billions of dollars as the company prepares for a public listing. Their story highlights how a venture founded to influence the direction of AI may also bring its founders substantial financial rewards.

The group includes siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, along with Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Chris Olah. They collectively hold about 10% of Anthropic, with each owning roughly 240 million Class A shares, or a 1.4% stake. At the latest funding-round price of $58.90 per share, each stake was valued at about $14 billion; a planned IPO price of $70 to $78 could raise that to $17 billion to $18 billion, with trading expected to begin on 19 November.