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Sam McCandlish

Co-founder of Anthropic; co-author of neural scaling laws research; formerly at OpenAI

Current Role
Co-founder
Organization
Anthropic

Organization Roles1

AnthropicFounderCurrent
Co-Founder & CTO
2021 – present
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Quick Assessment

AttributeDetail
NameSam McCandlish (also Samuel Russel McCandlish)
Current RoleChief Architect, Anthropic
Previous RoleChief Technology Officer, Anthropic; Research Lead, OpenAI
EducationB.S./M.S. in Math and Physics, Brandeis University; Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Stanford University
Key ContributionsAI scaling laws, large-batch training, Constitutional AI, responsible scaling policies
CitationsOver 100,000 (Google Scholar)
Co-founderOne of seven co-founders of Anthropic
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Wikipedia (Anthropic)en.wikipedia.org

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People
Employed ByAnthropic
Role / TitleCo-founder
Biographical
Notable ForCo-founder of Anthropic; co-author of neural scaling laws research; formerly at OpenAI
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