× Anthropic was founded to be the safety lab that would pull rivals upward. Five years later it is the most aggressive frontier scaler at $380 billion, the company most likely to build the dangerous thing it warns about. A personal note first. This post is an outtake from a 14,000-word profile of Dario Amodei I just published. I don’t like Anthropic noticeably more than I dislike the other hyperscalers and AI model providers. Amodei is probably the AI CEO whose language and thinking land closest to mine, so over the last few weeks I worked through a dozen of his interviews, a stack of his essays, and a lot of hours of him on YouTube. The longform is the portrait. This post is the structural argument that fell out of it. If you want the character work, the family backstory, and the scenes a paradox piece can’t carry, read the full thing. Dario Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with six other ex-OpenAI researchers and a thesis with two halves: (1) powerful AI is coming whether or not…
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