
Portrait of Daniela Amodei, president and co-founder of Anthropic, valued at $965 billion, considered one of the most powerful figures in AI.
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Daniela Amodei is the president and co-founder of Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company.
In the packed Stanford lecture hall, in the heart of Silicon Valley, the host asks who uses Claude, Anthropic's virtual assistant. A forest of hands rises. On stage, the guest of the day calms down, smiling: “If Sam Altman had come and we had asked you the same question about ChatGPT, you would have raised your hand too.” The one joking is Daniela Amodei, 39, president and co-founder of a company valued at $965 billion (833 billion euros), and arguably the most powerful woman in AI. Nothing, apparently, predestined her for this role.
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