Jared Kaplan

Jared Kaplan is a theoretical physicist and artificial intelligence researcher who serves as co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI company. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, where he has been on the faculty since 2012. Kaplan is best known for co-authoring Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020) and contributing to the development of GPT-3 and Codex during his time as a research consultant at OpenAI from 2019 to 2020. In October 2024, he additionally took on the role of Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Officer, overseeing the company's responsible scaling policy.