This is a blog post by Ben Kuhn about why he's leaving Wave (where he was CTO) and joining the AI startup Anthropic.
Anthropic just raised $300MM from Google and - perhaps more interestingly - was founded by and employs many of the authors of the paper that underpins modern machine learinng models, [Attention is all you need](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762).
Wave, Ben's previous company, is a big deal in Africa. In Ben's own words, "When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, (Suri and Jack 2016) found that it lifted 2% of all Kenyan households—almost a million people—out of extreme poverty. I think Wave has a strong chance of doing the same for the rest of sub-Saharan Africa!
Point being, Ben is someone who I'm always impressed thinks so deeply about his work and I'm more optimistic about Anthropic knowing that he's involved.
Anthropic just raised $300MM from Google and - perhaps more interestingly - was founded by and employs many of the authors of the paper that underpins modern machine learinng models, [Attention is all you need](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762).
Wave, Ben's previous company, is a big deal in Africa. In Ben's own words, "When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, (Suri and Jack 2016) found that it lifted 2% of all Kenyan households—almost a million people—out of extreme poverty. I think Wave has a strong chance of doing the same for the rest of sub-Saharan Africa!
Point being, Ben is someone who I'm always impressed thinks so deeply about his work and I'm more optimistic about Anthropic knowing that he's involved.