Christopher Olah

Chris Olah is cofounder and interpretability research lead at Anthropic, which builds large-scale artificial intelligence systems.

He cofounded Anthropic in 2021 with six other ex-OpenAI employees.

Anthropic, which private investors valued at $380 billion in February 2026, has partnerships with Google's parent company Alphabet and Amazon.

Olah previously worked in a similar role at OpenAI and was a researcher at Google Brain.

Olah skipped college and was named a Thiel Fellow in 2012, when he was 19. In 2020, he wrote a blog post to help others decide if they should follow a similar path.