Five things to know about Anthropic

US stocks: Five things to know about Anthropic

Founded by former OpenAI researchers, Anthropic has grown into a major AI company backed by Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Nvidia. As the Claude developer prepares for a landmark IPO, its safety-focused philosophy, unconventional roots and clash with the Pentagon are drawing renewed scrutiny.

Five things to know about Anthropic

Here are five things to know about the company behind the Claude chatbot. OpenAI exiles Anthropic's leaders learned to build AI at OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker, where they became known for their work on safety. Dario Amodei joined the then-nonprofit in 2016, where he ran its safety team and a team studying "scaling laws." Scaling laws describe how AI models gain ability as they are trained on more data. His younger sister Daniela joined OpenAI in 2…