Tom Brown

About Tom Brown

Tom Brown is cofounder and chief compute officer of startup Anthropic, which builds large-scale artificial intelligence systems.

He cofounded Anthropic in 2021 with six other ex-OpenAI employees.

Anthropic, which private investors valued at $61.5 billion in March 2025, has partnerships with Google's parent company Alphabet and Amazon.

While working at OpenAI, Brown served as lead author of the white paper that introduced the GPT-3 language model.

Brown studied computer science and cognitive science at MIT. He cofounded his first company, social club Grouper, in 2011.