Portrait of Tom Brown

Rank #555

Tom Brown

Net worth $7.0B

Artificial intelligence · United States

Born
Apr 01, 1987
Age
39
Source
Artificial intelligence
Residence
San Francisco, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Tom Brown is cofounder and chief compute officer of startup 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.
  • While working at OpenAI, Brown served as lead author of the white paper that introduced the GPT-3 language model.
  • Brown studied computer science and cognitive science at MIT. He cofounded his first company, social club Grouper, in 2011.