Neil Freiman
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This is one of the fastest growing startups ever, and it's got to feel good for the Amadei siblings.
Back in 2021, they were working at OpenAI and Dario and his sister, Daniela.
Dario is now the CEO of Anthropic and Daniela is the president of Anthropic.
They left OpenAI because they were worried that OpenAI wasn't concerned about AI safety enough.
So they started Anthropic and baked safety into the very core of the company and
And their mission continues to be, quote, safely guiding the world through a technological revolution that has the potential to change the course of human history.
Now, for many years, OpenAI was the face of an AI startup.
They released Chachi Petit.
They got everything going.
But now it feels like Anthropic has...
surpass them, not only in valuation, but in just being the reputational and just the public image of AI.
And they've just been in headlines everywhere.
They've been fighting with the Pentagon.
They released Mythos, which was this AI model for cybersecurity that they said was too dangerous to release to the public.
And then Pope Leo earlier this week issued that AI encyclical, this big letter that was talked about everywhere.
Who was with Pope Leo but an anthropic executive?
They've sort of taken the mantle from OpenAI in just four years that OpenAI has been around for a lot longer.
Yeah, Michael Dell and Trump are kind of BFFs and it's paying off for Dell, it seems.
One of the reasons that Dell and Trump are so close is that last December, remember, Michael and his wife Susan appeared alongside Trump and then they announced an investment of $6.25 billion.
billion to Trump accounts, which is this investment program for children.