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Historical news article documenting Anthropic's founding moment in 2021, relevant for understanding the organizational origins of one of the leading AI safety-focused labs and the schism from OpenAI.

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Reports the founding of Anthropic in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei along with nine other OpenAI employees, following a $124M Series A round led by Jaan Tallinn. The company positioned itself as a safety-focused AI research lab aiming to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Key investors included Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt, and the Center for Emerging Risk Research.

Key Points

•Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of Research Dario Amodei and VP of Safety Daniela Amodei, plus nine other OpenAI staff.
•The $124M Series A was led by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, signaling strong EA/longtermist community backing.
•Anthropic's stated mission centers on reliability, interpretability, and human feedback in large-scale AI model development.
•The founding team included key GPT-3 contributors such as Tom Brown and researchers like Amanda Askell and Jack Clark.
•The company framed AI development as an empirical science requiring critical evaluation of societal impacts.

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