Etiquetas: Dario Amodei

Andre​j Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s original co‑founders, announced Monday that he has joined Anthropic’s pre‑training team. Tasked with building a group that uses Anthropic’s own Claude model to speed up the costly pre‑training phase, Karpathy brings a résumé that spans Stanford, Tesla’s Full Self‑Driving program and a brief stint at his own AI‑education startup. The hire arrives as OpenAI grapples with a wave of senior departures, while Anthropic, valued at roughly $800 billion, eyes an IPO by late 2026. Industry observers see the move as a sign that Anthropic can attract top talent and may usher in a new era of recursive model improvement. Leer más

Anthropic’s newest AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, is being pitched as a cyber‑security tool that can spot vulnerabilities in major software platforms. The rollout follows months of acrimonious exchanges with the Trump administration, which branded the company a “radical left, woke” threat to national security. With Apple, Nvidia and JPMorgan Chase already on board, and senior officials reportedly briefed on the model’s capabilities, Anthropic appears to be rebuilding bridges with the Pentagon, the White House and other agencies. Leer más

Venture capital firms have been circling Anthropic with offers that could value the AI startup at more than $800 billion, but the company has so far declined to engage. The offers come after Anthropic raised $30 billion in a February round that set its valuation at $380 billion, and they rival OpenAI’s recent $852 billion post‑money valuation. With $50 billion earmarked for its own data‑center build‑out, $30 billion committed to Microsoft’s cloud, and billions spent on AWS, Anthropic appears intent on funding growth internally rather than seeking fresh equity. Leer más

A federal judge in California issued an injunction requiring the Trump administration to rescind its designation of AI firm Anthropic as a supply‑chain risk and to halt orders directing federal agencies to cut ties with the company. The ruling, delivered by Judge Rita F. Lin, rejected the administration’s claim that Anthropic posed a national‑security threat after the company challenged the Pentagon’s demand that it drop usage limits on its models. Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei hailed the decision as a protection of free speech and a step toward productive collaboration with the government. Leer más

Hundreds of current employees at Google and OpenAI have added their names to an open letter urging their companies to stand with Anthropic amid a Pentagon dispute over military uses of AI. The letter, titled “We Will Not Be Divided,” calls for both firms to reject Department of War demands for unrestricted model deployment, referencing statements from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Over 450 staff members have signed, with the majority from Google and the rest from OpenAI, while roughly half of the participants have chosen anonymity. The move follows recent pressure from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and discussions involving other AI entities such as xAI. Leer más

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has declined a request from the U.S. Department of Defense to remove safety guardrails from the company’s Claude AI models. Amodei argues that frontier AI systems are not yet reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons and that removing ethical constraints would jeopardize both safety and civil liberties. While affirming the strategic importance of AI for national defense, he stresses that current models cannot replace the critical judgment of trained troops. The refusal puts a $200 million Pentagon contract at risk. Leer más

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a meeting about the defense department’s concerns over the military use of Anthropic’s AI model Claude. The Pentagon is threatening to label the company a supply‑chain risk after Anthropic refused to let the department employ its technology for mass surveillance of Americans or for autonomous weapon systems. The move puts a high‑stakes ultimatum on the table that could void Anthropic’s existing defense contract and force other Pentagon partners to drop the model. Leer más

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei told reporters that the AI sector faces a complex risk environment that could resemble a bubble. While bullish on the technology’s potential, he cautioned that some rivals may take imprudent bets, especially around the timing of economic value, data‑center investment, and chip depreciation. Amodei highlighted the uncertainty of revenue growth, the need for disciplined risk management, and the danger of “YOLO‑style” strategies that could jeopardize companies’ financial health. Leer más

Anthropic announced a $200 million multi‑year partnership with cloud data company Snowflake to bring its Claude large language models to Snowflake’s platform and its extensive customer base. The agreement includes a joint go‑to‑market effort to deliver AI agents for enterprise use, with Claude Sonnet 4.5 powering Snowflake Intelligence and Claude Opus 4.5 available for multimodal data analysis and custom agent creation. Executives from both companies highlighted the strategic fit, noting that the integration places frontier AI directly within secure, trusted data environments that enterprises have built over years. Leer más

Leading AI figures, including Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Eric Schmidt and Gary Marcus, caution that large language models (LLMs) are limited tools that mimic language rather than replicate human thought. While tech CEOs tout imminent breakthroughs, researchers argue that true artificial general intelligence (AGI) will require world‑modeling, persistent memory, reasoning and planning capabilities beyond text‑based training. The piece highlights the growing skepticism within the AI community and stresses the need for a broader, multi‑disciplinary approach to building genuinely versatile intelligent systems. Leer más

Anthropic announced a $50 billion partnership with U.K.-based Fluidstack to build custom data centers in Texas and New York, slated for completion through 2026. The facilities are designed to support the compute‑intensive Claude models and reflect Anthropic’s push for dedicated infrastructure alongside existing cloud ties with Google and Amazon. The move positions Anthropic among rivals such as Meta and the SoftBank‑OpenAI‑Oracle consortium, whose infrastructure spending dwarfs the new project. Fluidstack, a rising neocloud provider, gains a high‑profile client and further credibility in the rapidly expanding AI‑hardware market. Leer más

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei told attendees at the Axios AI + DC Summit that he estimates a 25% probability that artificial intelligence could lead to disastrous, society‑wide consequences, while also seeing a 75% chance of highly positive results. He emphasized that despite the risk, the potential benefits of AI merit continued investment and careful safety measures. Amodei’s remarks echo broader industry and policy discussions about AI risk, regulation, and the balance between innovation and safeguards. Leer más