Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. His work covers large language models, AI safety, and understanding how AI systems behave.
About Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, where he directs the company's research strategy. Anthropic describes its research priorities as making AI systems more reliable, easier to interpret, and responsive to human direction.
Previously, Amodei was vice president of research at OpenAI, where he led work on GPT-2 and GPT-3, and a senior research scientist at Google Brain. He earned a doctorate in biophysics at Princeton University and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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- Kimi K3 Open Weights Are Live — 2.8T Parameters, Day-0 on Together and Modal →
Moonshot AI published open-source weights for Kimi K3 on July 26, 2026 — roughly a day ahead of its own July 27 target — putting a 2.8-trillion-parameter, 1M-context frontier model on Hugging Face for free download. Together AI and Modal both announced day-0 hosted access. Here's what's confirmed, what's still a claim, and how the release lands amid a live US policy fight over open-weight Chinese models.
- Can AI Cure Cancer? A Research-Backed Reality Check →
A careful evidence review of AI in cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment selection, drug discovery, and clinical care—without turning promising studies into a cure claim.
- Why explainx.ai Supports Open-Source AI →
Two letters landed on Washington's desk in July 2026 arguing opposite sides of the same question: should open-weight AI models stay legal to download and build on? Here's explainx.ai's own position, backed by the download, pricing, and adoption numbers — and what's actually at stake for the 350,000+ people we've taught to build with AI.
- Open Weights Letter: OpenAI + Google Join — 70+ Signers →
The July 24 open-weights letter started at 25 names. The live Microsoft roster now tops 70 — including OpenAI, Google, Cisco, GitHub, AMD, Cloudflare, and SpaceX. Anthropic remains off. explainx.ai updates the coalition and the fight.
- DARPA Flies an AI-Controlled F-16 — What VENOM Actually Proved →
DARPA and the US Air Force flew standard F-16s under AI control at Eglin Air Force Base using the VENOM Autonomy Kit — a flip-a-switch toggle between human and machine flight, not an unmanned jet. Here's what the AIR program actually validated, and what the human-on-the-loop safety debate misses.
- Little Tech Association Urges Trump Not to Ban Chinese Open-Weight AI →