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The people behind AI companies: where they came from, what they saw that others missed, and how they got started.
A first-year lawyer and his roommate tested GPT-3 on a hundred Reddit questions and emailed the results to OpenAI. Four years later Harvey is valued at $15.5 billion, and the roommates still share the flat.
Legal AIWinston Weinberg · Harvey
A physicist and a literature graduate left OpenAI to build Anthropic. Five years on it is valued at $965 billion, locked in a fight with the Pentagon, and heading for a stock-market listing that could be the largest ever.
Frontier AIDario and Daniela Amodei · Anthropic
He runs the company behind ChatGPT on a salary of roughly $65,000 to $76,000, and holds no direct stake in a business last valued at $852 billion. This is how Sam Altman got there, and what could still go wrong.
Frontier AISam Altman · OpenAI