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A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series
A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives
TL;DREarly Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn has given $170M to AI safety research over a decade.
Why it matters: Shows serious money backing AI risk concerns, potentially influencing how frontier labs approach safety versus speed.
One of Anthropic's earliest investors, Jaan Tallinn dances hip-hop and warns about ‘racing to build a technology that could end humanity’
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