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Jared Kaplan
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Artificial intelligence
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Pacifica, California
Biography
Jared Kaplan is cofounder and chief science officer of 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.
Kaplan is a theoretical physicist with a PhD from Harvard. His research has been focused on quantum gravity and machine learning.
He became a professor at Johns Hopkins University in 2012 but is currently on leave.