Anthropic's founders all simultaneously ranked among the 500 richest billionaires

As a result of Anthropic's latest funding round, which brought its valuation to nearly $1 trillion, all seven founders of the AI startup have joined the ranks of the world's 500 richest people, Bloomberg reports. This is the largest single addition to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking by people from a single company in its history.

The AI giant's founding team is headed by brother and sister Dario and Daniela Amodei. According to Bloomberg calculations, each of them owns less than 1% of the company. After Anthropic announced on May 28 that it had closed a new $65 billion round, the value of those stakes was about $8 billion each. In addition to Amodei, the list of billionaires includes for the first time the startup's other co-founders: Tom Brown, Jack Ma, Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Christopher Ola.

An Anthropic spokesman declined to comment to the agency.

This month, Bloomberg revealed 19 new billionaires who have become rich thanks to the AI boom. Among them are Andrew Feldman and Sean Lee, who founded chip maker Cerebras Systems, which went public in mid-May, and Edwin Chen of Surge AI, which prepares and partitions data for training AI models. And during the trial on Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, its co-founder Ilya Sutskever disclosed his stake in the company - its value is estimated at $7 billion.

Both OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to IPO this year. In the latest round, Anthropic managed to beat its competitor and become the most expensive AI startup.

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