D ario Amodei is an Italian-American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, a prominent AI safety and research company. A leading mind in the field of AI, he was previously the Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he led the teams that developed the groundbreaking large language models GPT-2 and GPT-3.

In 2021, driven by a deep commitment to AI safety and a different vision for developing powerful AI, Amodei, his sister Daniela, and a group of other senior researchers left OpenAI to found Anthropic. As CEO, he has led the company's mission to build reliable, interpretable, and beneficial AI systems. The company has developed its own family of large language models, known as Claude, which are designed with a 'constitutional AI' approach to be helpful, harmless, and honest. Anthropic has quickly become a major player in the AI industry, attracting billions of dollars in funding from tech giants like Google and Amazon and making its founders billionaires on paper.