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Meet the Canadian dropout set to reap a multibillion-dollar windfall from Anthropic's IPO

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Canadian researcher Christopher Olah, an Anthropic co-founder and its interpretability research lead, holds a stake valued at US$15.5 billion at the company’s last fundraising, alongside each of its six other co-founders. Anthropic plans to go public, but the timing and final value of any windfall are not specified. Olah previously worked at Google’s AI research arm and OpenAI, and studied how neural networks operate.