Dario Amodei

Dario Amodei was born in 1983 in San Francisco, California, US. Dario Amodei's background is described as Italian-American father from Tuscany; Jewish American mother from Chicago. Growing up, the family was middle class — leather-craftsman father who died when Dario was a young adult; mother a project manager for libraries. A physicist turned AI researcher; left OpenAI to co-found Anthropic with his sister.

Born

1983 · San Francisco, California, US

Roots

Italian-American father from Tuscany; Jewish American mother from Chicago

Family

Middle class

Leather-craftsman father who died when Dario was a young adult; mother a project manager for libraries.

Education

Caltech → Stanford (physics) → Princeton (PhD, biophysics)

Started with

$124M raised

Anthropic's 2021 Series A, led by Jaan Tallinn.

Affiliations & societies

None documented.

Information only — claims like these are often unverifiable and may be wrong.

The pathway

1. 2000 · age 17
   US Physics Olympiad team

   While at Lowell High School, a public magnet school in San Francisco.

2. 2006 · age 23
   Physics degree at Stanford

   After starting at Caltech and transferring.

3. 2011 · age 28
   PhD at Princeton

   Biophysics, on a Hertz Foundation fellowship.

4. 2014 · age 31
   Baidu, then Google Brain

   Works on speech recognition under Andrew Ng; moves to Google the following year.

5. 2016 · age 33
   Joins OpenAI

   Becomes VP of Research; leads work on GPT-2 and GPT-3.

6. 2021 · age 38
   Co-founds Anthropic$124M

   Leaves OpenAI with his sister Daniela and five colleagues.

7. 2023 · age 40
   Claude launches

   Amazon and Google later invest billions.

8. 2025 · age 42
   Anthropic valued at $183B$183B

   In the company's Series F round.