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Christopher Olah

Net worth $7.0B

Artificial intelligence · Canada

Born
Jun 01, 1992
Age
33
Source
Artificial intelligence
Residence
San Francisco, California
Citizenship
Canada
Marital status
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • 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.