Anthropic has roughly 2,000 employees
Anthropic has roughly 2,000 employees, says it launched more than 30 products and features in January alone.
Anthropic’s ruthless efficiency comes in part from a paradoxical source: a mission-obsessed culture. It was founded by former staff at OpenAI who believed that company was too blasé about safety, specifically toward the existential risk that AI posed for humankind.
The issue morphed into a kind of ideology at Anthropic, with Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei its high priest and visionary.Parmy Olson Boomberg 5 February 2026
Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”
The book was awarded the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award in 2024
Critique: Some reviewers have noted the tone can be "depressing" due to its cynical view of how capitalist pressures crushed the initial idealistic goals of the AI founders.

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