Jack Clark, a former journalist and co-founder of Anthropic, has established himself as an authoritative voice in the ever-evolving and competitive world of artificial intelligence. Through his weekly AI newsletter, Import AI, Clark is able to reach over 34,000 dedicated subscribers and deliver them up-to-date news and insights on the latest advances and trends.
Clark’s journey began with a chance encounter during a plane ride to an AI conference in Montreal where he encountered a Berkeley professor with close ties to a relatively unknown startup called OpenAI. With the support of his wife, Clark decided to leave his role as a technology reporter at Bloomberg and venture into the field of AI full-time. He has since served as OpenAI’s Head of Strategy and Communications and Policy, and he also co-founded Anthropic, a model provider for AI that has earned over a billion dollars in funding and attained a 4.1 billion dollar worth.
Import AI focuses on providing a detailed analysis of AI research papers, Clark’s thoughts on AI-related events, and engaging short-fiction stories. Notable subscribers of the newsletter include politicians, policymakers, and executives. The content of the newsletter is aimed to go beyond the general hype of the field and explore the real issues and breakthroughs that make AI such a powerful and exciting field.
At Anthropic, Clark’s role entailed serving as a mediator between the startup and government officials. He considers himself as the “AI Wikipedia”, specializing in having a comprehensive understanding of all that has happened in the AI world and being able to discuss it with government officials.
Clark continues to find the time to write Import AI, which he considers a passion project for himself. Through the newsletter, he hopes to cultivate a better understanding of AI and its implications.
Anthropic is an AI model provider that has grown rapidly over the past few years, raising an impressive $1 billion in funding and achieving a greatly valued $4.1 billion valuation. It utilizes a technique called “constitutional AI” to train models in a transparent and harmless way. It provides services such as natural language processing and computer vision to enable the application of AI in different areas.
Jack Clark is an experienced AI researcher and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Anthropic, a model provider for AI, and was a key member of OpenAI prior to that. Clark has a long-standing interest in AI-related topics and was the head of strategy and communications and policy at OpenAI. With his AI newsletter, Import AI, Clark takes a unique approach to writing, providing an in-depth analysis of AI research papers and sharing his thoughts on the field, which has gained considerable success with over 34,000 subscribers.
