NYT profile traces Dario Amodei's 20-year path from personal loss to Anthropic IPO
赛博禅心 · wechat · 2026-11-07
A New York Times profile, based on interviews with over 20 classmates, friends and colleagues ahead of Anthropic's mega-IPO, maps Dario Amodei's formative years: his father's 2006 death from hepatitis C (effective drugs arrived years later), his 2007 conviction after reading Kurzweil that the singularity would arrive around 2040, and a 2014 cancer diagnosis that intensified his obsession with time.
The piece details his rationalist/effective-altruist roots, the San Francisco group house where four of Anthropic's seven cofounders lived, and his power struggle at OpenAI with Sam Altman — including ultimatums over Greg Brockman's involvement — before leaving in 2020 and founding Anthropic four weeks later. Dario declined to be interviewed.
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