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Jared Kaplan

Net worth $7.0B

Artificial intelligence · United States

Born
May 01, 1984
Age
42
Source
Artificial intelligence
Residence
Pacifica, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education

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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.