Rank #555
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.