Anthropic's leadership team and org chart

An org chart of Anthropic's leadership team and research groups, built from public titles, plus 42 profiles of the co-founders, executives and researchers behind Claude.

Dario AmodeiCEO

Daniela AmodeiPresident

Jared KaplanChief Science Officer

Jack ClarkHead of Public Benefit

Chris OlahInterpretability lead

Ben MannLabs co-lead

Sam McCandlishChief Architect

Tom BrownChief Compute Officer

Anthropic org chart

Anthropic's leadership team by function: the CEO and President, then each part of the company and who leads it.

Anthropic doesn't publish an org chart. People are grouped by function from their public titles; "reports to" appears only where a source states it.

Co-founders

All eight worked at OpenAI before Anthropic.

Dario AmodeiCEOTrained as a biophysicist, worked a stint as a geophysicist, then led research at OpenAI before leaving to start Anthropic.Full profile →

Daniela AmodeiPresidentAn English literature major who went from congressional campaigns to Stripe and OpenAI. She now runs Anthropic day to day and chairs its board.Full profile →

Jared KaplanChief Science OfficerA theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins who co-wrote the 2020 scaling-laws paper while consulting for OpenAI.Full profile →

Jack ClarkHead of Public BenefitA tech journalist at Bloomberg and The Register before OpenAI. He still writes the Import AI newsletter he started in 2016.Full profile →

Chris OlahInterpretability leadLeft the University of Toronto after one year, without finishing a degree, and became one of the founders of interpretability research.Full profile →

Ben MannLabs co-leadOne of the architects of GPT-3 at OpenAI. His own site calls him a software engineer, tinkerer and aspiring mad scientist.Full profile →

Sam McCandlishChief ArchitectA theoretical physicist who wrote his Stanford PhD on quantum gravity, then co-wrote GPT-3 and the scaling-laws paper.Full profile →

Tom BrownChief Compute OfficerA startup engineer who taught himself AI research and went on to lead the engineering of GPT-3.Full profile →

Research teams

20 researchers and builders, by the team their public title places them in. "Lead" marks people whose title or sourced role says they lead or head a team or group.

Interpretability

How models work inside

Alignment science

Keeping models' goals and behavior safe

Pretraining

Training the base models

Reasoning and RL

Reinforcement learning and reasoning

Safety, red team and security

Testing for dangerous capabilities and attacks

Character and model welfare

Claude's character and whether models' experiences matter

Machine learning research

Core ML research

Claude Code

Anthropic's coding agent

Boris ChernyCreator of Claude Code

Research product

Product management for research and new Claude models

Alex AlbertResearch product manager

Careers outside tech

People whose earlier jobs were in law, government, journalism, sport, science or space.

LawJustice of the California Supreme CourtMariano-Florentino CuéllarChief Global Affairs Officer at Anthropic
DiplomacyU.S. Ambassador to AustraliaJeff BleichInternational Special Envoy at Anthropic
GovernmentSpecial adviser to the UK Prime MinisterLogan GrahamHead of Frontier Red Team at Anthropic
PoliticsField director on a congressional campaignDaniela AmodeiPresident at Anthropic
JournalismTech reporter at The Register and BloombergJack ClarkHead of Public Benefit at Anthropic
ScienceGeophysicist at SchlumbergerDario AmodeiCEO at Anthropic
SpaceResearch associate on NASA's Mars roversJascha Sohl-DicksteinResearcher at Anthropic

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When they joined

The year each person joined Anthropic, where it is public. 21 of 40 joined in 2024 or later.

More on Anthropic

The talentWhere Anthropic's people came fromThe OpenAI founding wave, the later DeepMind wave, the Stripe pipeline into leadership and the YC founders who joined.Open →The papersThe research papers behind AnthropicWho wrote the GPT-3 paper, the scaling laws and RLHF: every author of ten AI research papers from 2016 to 2020, and who later joined Anthropic.Open →The moneyAnthropic IPO, valuation and revenueEvery funding round, the revenue run-rate, who owns Anthropic and where the IPO stands.Open →

How we made this

Research task Completed

Prompt

Research the people behind Anthropic (the AI company that makes Claude): all of its co-founders, its current executive leadership team, and the most publicly prominent researchers and technical leaders (people known for authored papers, public talks, books, newsletters, or named public roles). Target about 40 people… Rules: give a credible source URL for every field, preferring primary sources…

People: 42
Fields each: 25
Sources: 269

Anthropic's leadership team and org chart

Anthropic org chart

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