Christopher Olah

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 $965 billion in May 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.