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OpenAI alumni and new companies
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- 0:00Amazon and Google poured over $10
- 0:01billion into the OpenAI defectors. This
- 0:03is Dario Amodei, Anthropic's co-founder
- 0:06and CEO. In 2021, he and his sister
- 0:08Daniela led OpenAI's top researchers
- 0:10out. They thought AI was being built too
- 0:12fast, too recklessly. [music] So, they
- 0:14built their own lab, Anthropic, and
- 0:16Claude. He says the goal is powerful AI
- 0:18that stays safe. The safety-first lab
- 0:20became an AI superpower. Amazon bet $8
- 0:23billion,
- 0:23>> [music]
- 0:24>> Google billions more. By 2025, Anthropic
- 0:27was valued at a reported $183 billion.
- 0:30Claude became the AI big companies
- 0:32actually [music] trust. And Claude code
- 0:34changed how software gets built. The
- 0:35people who left because it moved too
- 0:37fast built the fastest-growing rival.
- 0:39>> [music]
- 0:39>> Follow for the builder economy.
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