Dario Amodei

Male

White

Coarse public-record coding; race is a noisy, interpretive category.

Italian-American father; mother described as Jewish American.

As Wikipedia states the parents' backgrounds. His own description is not established in the sources used.

Born in the United States. Wikipedia describes his father as Italian-American; when the family arrived is not established.

Coded migration none because Amodei himself was born in the US.

not established

His salary and equity terms at Baidu, Google Brain, OpenAI and Anthropic are not established in the sources used.

not established

Not established either way.

Father Riccardo Amodei, a leather craftsman. Mother Elena Engel, a project manager for libraries.

Wikipedia's account; the primary source behind it was not checked.

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His sister Daniela, born four years after him, co-founded Anthropic.

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Wikipedia reports his father died of a disease when Dario was 23.

The father's death came while Amodei was in his twenties and in graduate school, not during childhood. Whether he has described it himself is not established in the sources used.

San Francisco, California.

Lowell High School, San Francisco.

Whether he attended as a public school student is not stated in the article.

Grew up in the city that became a center of the technology industry, and lives there now per Forbes.

Six other former OpenAI employees, including his sister Daniela Amodei, who is Anthropic's president per Forbes. Wikipedia also names Jared Kaplan and Chris Olah.

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Roughly 2011 PhD to 2021 founding, counting the postdoc and industry roles.

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Baidu, Google Brain and OpenAI before Anthropic; the postdoc at Stanford is not counted.

Anthropic was founded by a group of senior OpenAI staff who left together.

PhD in biophysics, Princeton University (2011), after a bachelor's in physics at Stanford. He began at Caltech.

not established

Not established. He held a Hertz Foundation Fellowship from 2007, a graduate-school award.

Hertz Foundation Fellowship (2007) during the PhD and Hertz Thesis Prize (2011).

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation incorporated January 26, 2021. Wikipedia lists a $124 million round in May 2021 and later rounds including $3.5 billion (March 2025), $13 billion (September 2025), $30 billion (February 2026) and $65 billion (May 2026, at a $965 billion valuation), with Amazon and Google among investors.

Coded originCapital as angel and raisedOutsideCapital as true because outside investors, not his own savings, funded the start. Who the first investors were is not established in the sources used, so the angel label is approximate.

The founders left OpenAI over differences in direction, per Wikipedia.

Forbes lists him as cofounder and CEO. His share of Anthropic and the split among the seven founders are not established in the sources used.

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Anthropic was incorporated in January 2021; birth year 1983.

San Francisco Bay Area.

Forbes lists his current residence as San Francisco; where the company was based at founding is not checked.

Artificial intelligence

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Forbes's figure as shown on its profile page on October 10, 2026. It is a point-in-time estimate. It rests on a stake in Anthropic, a private company whose value is itself an estimate. Forbes lists several Anthropic cofounders at similar figures, and the sources used do not say how the stakes divide.

Journalistic estimate

2026

Presumably largely paper, since Anthropic is private. No sale of his shares is established in the sources used.

Wealth, not income. Forbes attributes it to his Anthropic stake. His pay is not established in the sources used.

CEO of a company that private investors valued at $965 billion as of May 2026, per Forbes. Earlier, a co-inventor of reinforcement learning from human feedback per Forbes.

Uncapped

In Bartz v. Anthropic, Wikipedia reports a June 2025 ruling that training on lawfully obtained copies of the plaintiffs' works was fair use, and that using over seven million pirated library copies was not. In September 2025 Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle, about $3,000 per book plus interest.

The suit is against the company, not Amodei personally. Wikipedia's summary of the court ruling and settlement was not checked against the court docket.

Music publishers including Concord, Universal and ABKCO sued Anthropic in October 2023, alleging infringement of song lyrics. Anthropic said the examples were bugs. Wikipedia also reports a further suit by Sony, EMI and Warner Chappell in August 2026. Outcomes are not established in the sources used.

Company litigation; Amodei is not described as personally liable.

After

Incidental

The settlement concerned how training data was obtained, which relates to the company's product, so this coding is a judgment call.

Fine absorbed

Borne by the company through the settlement.

Wikipedia reports that in February 2026 Amodei refused Pentagon requests to drop contract limits on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, that the Defense Department then labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and that a federal judge issued a temporary injunction on March 26, 2026. The case was ongoing in the sources used.

Policy dispute reported by Wikipedia citing AP and Reason; not checked against the original reports.