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Eleven OpenAI Employees Break Off to Establish Anthropic, Raise $124 Million | AI Business

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A startup has raised $124 million in a Series A round, on a promise of building reliable and steerable AI systems. Anthropic was founded by OpenAI's former VP of research Dario Amodei, and his sister, Daniela, who previously worked as OpenAI's VP of safety and policy; at least nine other OpenAI employees joined the young company. The funding round was led by Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype. Also taking part was Infotech's James McClave, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, the Center for Emerging Risk Research, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Anthropic claims it will research the means to increase the safety of AI systems, focusing in particular on the reliability of large-scale AI models, making them more interpretable, and on allowing human feedback to influence the development and deployment of the models. “Anthropic’s goal is to make the fundamental research advances that will let us build more capable, general, and reliable AI systems, then deploy these systems in a way tha

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