Christopher Olah

Christopher Olah

Christopher Olah (#558)

  • $ 7 B
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Canada
  • M
  • 33 Years

About Me

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.
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  • #2623   Billionaires (2025)

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