Forbes estimated Daniela Amodei's net worth at $13.7 billion in a February 2026 article. The figure rests on her stake in Anthropic, the AI company she co-founded with her brother Dario Amodei.
She was born in 1987 in San Francisco and studied English literature at UC Santa Cruz on a classical flute scholarship. She joined Stripe in 2013 as an early employee.
In 2018 she moved to OpenAI, where she managed the team during GPT-2 development and later led safety and policy work. She left to co-found Anthropic, where she is president.
She is married to Holden Karnofsky, a co-founder of Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy. They have two children.