The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni
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A roundup of 18 startups founded by former OpenAI employees, spanning AI safety, robotics, search, education, and enterprise software. Notable companies include Anthropic (founded by Dario and Daniela Amodei, now valued at $380B), Safe Superintelligence (Ilya Sutskever, $32B valuation), Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati, $12B), Perplexity (Aravind Srinivas, $20B), and xAI (Kyle Kosic). The list illustrates how OpenAI has become a major talent incubator in Silicon Valley, with alumni collectively raising billions in venture funding across diverse AI application domains.
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David Luan — Adept AI LabsDario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and John Schulman — AnthropicRhythm Garg, Linden Li, and Yash Patil — Applied ComputePieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan — CovariantTim Shi — CrestaJonas Schneider — DaedalusAndrej Karpathy — Eureka LabsMargaret Jennings — KindoMaddie Hall — Living CarbonLiam Fedus — Periodic LabsAravind Srinivas — PerplexityJeff Arnold — PilotShariq Hashme — Prosper RoboticsIlya Sutskever — Safe SuperintelligenceEmmett Shear — Stem AIMira Murati — Thinking Machines LabKyle Kosic — xAIAngela Jiang — Worktrace AIStealth StartupsSort: