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Worth $965 Billion and Wary of the AI She Is Building: Who Is Daniela Amodei, the Woman Leading Anthropic and Claude?

From Le Figaro · () French

Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Daniela Amodei, Anthropic’s president and co-founder, leads a company valued at $965 billion and known for its Claude assistant.
  • At a Stanford event, she joked that audiences would also raise their hands if asked about ChatGPT by OpenAI chief Sam Altman.
  • The article portrays Amodei’s path from a San Francisco family rooted in craftsmanship and library work to a leading role in artificial intelligence.

At a packed Stanford amphitheater, nearly every hand rose when the audience was asked who used Claude, Anthropic’s virtual assistant. Daniela Amodei, the company’s president and co-founder, responded with a smile and a pointed joke: “If Sam Altman had come and you had been asked the same question about ChatGPT, you would have raised your hands too.”

Amodei, 39, leads a company valued at $965 billion (€833 billion), according to the article. She is presented as perhaps the most powerful woman in artificial intelligence, while facing the challenge of reconciling innovation with transparency.

If Sam Altman had come and you had been asked the same question about ChatGPT, you would have raised your hands too.

· Daniela AmodeiAmodei joked during a Stanford event after the audience was asked who used Anthropic’s Claude assistant.

Her route into the technology world did not appear predetermined. She grew up in San Francisco, the future capital of technology, with a leatherworker father and a librarian mother. Her older brother, Dario, was a prodigy who took mathematics courses at Berkeley while still in high school.

Amodei, by contrast, was drawn to reading and the arts. “We complemented each other,” she told the broadcaster, before the subscriber-only article excerpt ends.

We complemented each other.

· Daniela AmodeiAmodei described her relationship with her older brother Dario, whose interests contrasted with her own.
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