Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, is expected to go public within weeksin a listing that could eclipse the record set by SpaceX’s Wall Street debut in June.
Here are five things to know about the company:
Built by former OpenAI executives
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives who believed that the potential risks posed by artificial intelligence were not being taken seriously enough.
The company — whose name means, somewhat paradoxically, “relating to human beings” — is led by chief executive and co-founder Dario Amodei, a San Francisco native with a doctorate in biophysics from Princeton University, an unusual background among leading technology executives, many of whom studied computer science.
