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Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

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Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch that the company’s $65 billion fundraise at a $965 billion valuation, announced last week, was greatly oversubscribed. Now, with that private demand still strong, Anthropic has revealed that it’s taking steps toward a public listing by filing confidentially for an IPO. Co-founder Daniela Amodei, speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday, said the decision comes down to capital. “It’s a really big upfront cost to train the models and to serve inference on them,” she said. “My guess is that over time, the sort of core set of companies that are working to advance the frontier are just going to need access to capital, and I think the public market is very well suited to that.” Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. …

The Dissonance of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

The Dissonance of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

Published by José Betancourt

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines of Loving Grace,” is borrowed from a Richard Brautigan poem, but as Amodei acknowledged, with some embarrassment, its utopian vision bears some resemblance to science fiction. According to Amodei, we will soon create the first polymath AIs with abilities that surpass those of Nobel Prize winners in “most relevant fields,” and we’ll have millions of them, a “country of geniuses,” all packed into the glowing server racks of a data center, working together. With access to tools that operate directly on our physical world, these AIs would be able to get up to a great deal of dangerous mischief, but according to Amodei, if they’re developed—or “grown,” as staffers at Anthropic are fond of saying—in the correct way, they will decide to greatly improve our lives. Amodei does not explain precisely how the AIs will accomplish this. In most cases, he expects them to do …

OpenAI vs Anthropic : ChatGPT vs Claude : Dario Amodei vs Sam Altman

OpenAI vs Anthropic : ChatGPT vs Claude : Dario Amodei vs Sam Altman

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The contrasting strategies of Dario Amodei and Sam Altman have sparked significant shifts in the AI industry, with each leader charting a distinct path for their respective companies. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has prioritized ethical safeguards, notably rejecting unrestricted military applications of the company’s flagship model, Claude. This decision, while reinforcing Anthropic’s commitment to responsible AI, led to the Pentagon classifying the company as a supply chain risk, effectively phasing out its technology in defense operations. In contrast, Sam Altman’s OpenAI has taken a more pragmatic approach, securing a landmark defense contract by agreeing to specific restrictions on its AI systems. As Nate Jones highlights, these decisions reveal the growing tension between ethical considerations and the pursuit of strategic partnerships in shaping the future of AI. This guide explores the implications of these divergent strategies, offering insights into their broader impact on enterprise adoption and government collaboration. You’ll learn how OpenAI’s $110 billion funding round is fueling infrastructure expansion and solidifying its dominance across commercial and defense sectors. Additionally, it examines Anthropic’s appeal to …

Dario Amodei Issues Groveling Apology for Daring to Criticize Trump

Dario Amodei Issues Groveling Apology for Daring to Criticize Trump

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seemed to be sticking to his guns as he insisted that his company’s AI models not be used by the military to conduct mass surveillance of US citizens or control killer drones without human intervention. The CEO lashed out in an internal memo last week, which was leaked to The Information, accusing fellow OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman of bending the knee, claiming that he had given president Donald Trump “dictator-style praise” and bribing him with donations. The criticism put Anthropic in a precarious position. The other shoe finally dropped on Thursday, when the Pentagon officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk “effective immediately,” the first time a US company has ever been labeled as such. The unprecedented move is particularly bizarre because the Pentagon has reportedly been using Claude to select targets in its war on Iran. Now, Amodei has struck a drastically different tone, instead apologizing and groveling for the president’s …

Dario Amodei Says Trump Is a Dictator

Dario Amodei Says Trump Is a Dictator

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s insistence that the company’s AI models may not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or directing killer drones has kicked up a major storm. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and president Donald Trump came out swinging, directing all government agencies to stop using the company’s software “effective immediately” and labeling the company as a “supply chain risk,” sending shockwaves across the entire tech industry. Very little love has been lost between the AI leader and the White House. In a leaked Friday memo to employees obtained by The Information, Amodei ignited the powder keg by calling out the president — as well as his arch nemesis and fellow OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman for bending the knee. “The real reasons [Department of War] and the Trump admin do not like us is that we haven’t donated to Trump,” he wrote, adding that “we haven’t given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has).” It’s true that …

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says

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Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is not happy — perhaps predictably so — with OpenAI chief Sam Altman. In a memo to staff, reported by The Information, Amodei referred to OpenAI’s dealings with the Department of Defense as “safety theater.” “The main reason [OpenAI] accepted [the DoD’s deal] and we did not is that they cared about placating employees, and we actually cared about preventing abuses,” Amodei wrote. Last week, Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) failed to come to an agreement over the military’s request for unrestricted access to the AI company’s technology. Anthropic, which already had a $200 million contract with the military, insisted the DoD affirm that it would not use the company’s AI to enable domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weaponry. Instead, the DoD — known under the Trump administration as the Department of War — struck a deal with OpenAI. Altman stated that his company’s new defense contract would include protections against the same red lines that Anthropic had asserted. In a letter to staff, Amodei refers …

Skin-Crawlingly Awkward Video Shows Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Refusing to Hold Hands

Skin-Crawlingly Awkward Video Shows Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Refusing to Hold Hands

Published by José Betancourt

Futurism / Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images There’s no love being lost between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. At India’s AI Summit in New Delhi on Thursday, the respective CEOs of OpenAI and Athropic shared the stage with roughly a dozen other industry and political leaders, including the nation’s prime minister Narendra Modi. As they stood in a line facing the crowd, Modi beckoned them to join hands and raise them above their heads, presenting a united front. Except Altman and Amodei, whose companies are bitter rivals, didn’t follow suit. Instead of holding hands, there’s only a brief moment of awkward eye contact as they largely avoid looking at each other, with Amodei searching around himself in a kind of “who, me?” gesture — which, had it been on a different kind of stage, would be hailed as a great bit of comic acting. In the end, both Altman and Amodei elected to raise a closed fist with the hands they should’ve been locking. It was, as one Redditor described, a “cringe masterpiece.” Amodei …

Modi’s AI Summit Turns Awkward as Tech Leaders Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Dodge Contact

Modi’s AI Summit Turns Awkward as Tech Leaders Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Dodge Contact

Published by Sam Flores

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday invited leaders of some of the top artificial intelligence companies to gather on stage as part of a commitment to build more “inclusive and multilingual” AI around the world. And they did. But what caught some of the audience’s attention, and later went viral on social media, was an awkward interaction between two rival tech leaders: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Modi, host of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, clasped hands with those closest to him — Altman to his left and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to his right — and beckoned all 13 tech leaders to lift their hands up in a chain, like theater actors at the end of a show. Everyone was holding hands except for Altman and Amodei, who stood next to each other but for several seconds awkwardly avoided hand contact. Both eventually put up their fists instead. The interaction quickly became a visual symbol of the deep rivalries in the AI …