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Sam McCandlish

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Co-founder and Chief Architect at Anthropic

McCandlish helped establish scaling laws that predict how AI performance changes as models receive more computing power and data. That work helped laboratories plan increasingly large training runs. As an Anthropic co-founder and chief architect, he focuses on pretraining and research infrastructure.

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Current role
Co-founder and Chief Architect
Previously
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26146,374118,10589,835Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Sep 1, '26
146,374citations as of Sep 1, '26+4,454 since Aug 1, '26
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