Anthropic emerges with $124 million and a safety focus

Anthropic, founded by seven former OpenAI employees including Dario Amodei, previously vice president of research, and his sister Daniela Amodei, disclosed on 28 May 2021 that it had raised $124 million.

Why it mattered A second laboratory built around AI safety came out of OpenAI’s own research staff. Anthropic later released the Claude family of models.

Corrections

2026-09-01 - This entry originally described Daniela Amodei as “previously vice president of safety and policy” at OpenAI. Neither cited source supports that title; corrected to identify her only as Dario Amodei’s sister, per the cited reporting.