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Meet Anthropic’s Seven Founders as the A.I. Firm Prepares for an IPO

NYTimes Technology • Mon, 26 Oct 2026

Former OpenAI employees started the company in 2021 after disagreements over how to safely build artificial intelligence. An I.P.O. could make them billionaires.

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Former OpenAI employees started the company in 2021 after disagreements over how to safely build artificial intelligence. An I.P.O. could make them billionaires.

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