Building Anthropic | A conversation with our co-founders

Anthropic • December 20, 2024

Anthropic

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We’re an AI safety and research company. Talk to our AI assistant Claude on claude.com. Download Claude on desktop, iOS, or Android. We believe AI will have a vast impact on the world. Anthropic is dedicated to building systems that people can rely on and generating research about the opportunities and risks of AI.

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The co-founders of Anthropic discuss the past, present, and future of Anthropic. From left to right: Chris Olah, Jack Clark, Daniela Amodei, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown, Dario Amodei, and Jared Kaplan. Links and further reading: Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP): https://www.anthropic.com/news/announcing-our-updated-responsible-scaling-policy Machines of Loving Grace: https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace Work with us: https://anthropic.com/careers Claude: https://claude.com 00:00 Why work on AI? 02:08 Scaling breakthroughs 03:30 Early days of AI 10:57 Sentiment shifting 18:30 The Responsible Scaling Policy 30:42 Founding story 32:45 Building a culture of trust 39:08 Racing to the top 43:43 Looking to the future

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