# Ben Mann

> Benjamin “Ben” Mann is an Anthropic co-founder and engineer who helped build GPT-3 at OpenAI after six years at Google. His reading of Superintelligence redirected a startup plan toward AI safety. He later led Anthropic product engineering and now helps run Anthropic Labs, where experimental Claude products are tested with early users.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Labs lead at Anthropic
- **Organizations:** Anthropic, OpenAI, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Google
- **Education:** Computer science; magna cum laude, Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
- **Known for:** Co-founded Anthropic in 2021., Second-listed author of the 2020 GPT-3 paper., Helped implement GPT-3 large-scale models, training infrastructure, model-parallel strategies, training data preparation and downstream tasks.

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Built an experimental offline Chinese character recognition and translation app for Android with his brother and classmates.
- **2011–2017** — Worked in software engineering at Google for six years, including full-stack development and leading a seven-engineer team.
- **2017** — Left Google to explore founding a company; after reading Superintelligence, shifted focus to AI safety and worked at MIRI and OpenAI.
- **2020** — Listed second among authors of the GPT-3 paper and contributed to its models, training infrastructure, data and evaluations.
- **2021** — Co-founded Anthropic with former OpenAI colleagues.
- **2023** — Described himself as leading Anthropic product engineering.
- **2026-01** — Anthropic announced an expanded Labs group with Mike Krieger joining Ben Mann.
- **2026-09** — Discussed Anthropic Labs’ roughly 20-person team and rapid prototype reviews with Business Insider.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Anthropic in 2021.
- Second-listed author of the 2020 GPT-3 paper.
- Helped implement GPT-3 large-scale models, training infrastructure, model-parallel strategies, training data preparation and downstream tasks.
- Led product engineering at Anthropic and became a leader of Anthropic Labs.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — In an interview about Anthropic Labs, Mann described a roughly 20-person product incubator that reviews prototypes on about two-week cycles.
- **2026-01** — Anthropic announced an expansion of Labs and said Mike Krieger would build alongside Mann.
- **2025-10** — Mann discussed experimentation, Claude and Anthropic’s partnership with SK Telecom ahead of the SK AI Summit.

## Links

- Website: https://benjmann.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mann/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/8enmann
- GitHub: https://github.com/8enmann

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Last updated: 2026-09-29