Tom Brown

Tom Brown is a Co-founder of Anthropic, a prominent artificial intelligence safety and research enterprise based in San Francisco, California. Prior to establishing Anthropic in 2021 alongside former colleagues Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, he joined OpenAI around 2016 as one of the research laboratory's first twenty employees. Earlier in his professional career, Brown contributed to multiple early-stage technology startups backed by Y Combinator, where he largely self-taught his advanced machine learning capabilities despite lacking formal mathematical training. At Anthropic, which operates with financial backing from major institutional investors including Salesforce Ventures, his technical scope involves advancing safe model development through methodologies such as Constitutional AI. His current focus remains centered on building highly capable, transformative artificial intelligence systems while strictly prioritizing alignment, safety protocols, and responsible deployment across the technology sector.