She founded a porn venture and tried to recruit Epstein. Today she is the "First Lady of AI"

Dario Amodei, CEO of the giant company Anthropic and a direct competitor to the AI giant OpenAI, which just this week reported an annual revenue run rate of $65 billion ahead of an IPO expected to break records, is considered one of the most influential people in the technology world today. However, an investigation by the Wall Street Journal last week revealed the most influential figure behind him, who is involved in dramatic decisions and the company's strategy. As in many other cases, it is his wife, Kamy Clark.

She has already been dubbed the "First Lady of AI," even though she does not officially work at Anthropic. Nevertheless, despite attempts to keep a low profile, she can often be seen sitting in the front row at high-profile events attended by Amodei, such as the Davos summit. She even accompanied him to a meeting in February with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The two even kept their wedding private, so that on Amodei's Wikipedia page it was only mentioned this year that he is married, and even Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, answers questions on the subject by stating that "Dario Amodei's marital status is not clearly verified."

The reason may be related to the fact that Clark's life story is far from the classic image of a typical "tech CEO's wife." She was born in Reno in 1979, began studying architecture, but dropped out of university. She experienced bankruptcy in her youth, and was even married at age 20 to architect Mulder Eklund III, who was 64 at the time. They divorced after only three years. Later, she filed for bankruptcy, and in 2010 she founded Addis, which was defined as a "revolutionary porn company for women," designed to emphasize sexual positivity in an industry aimed at men, and included the slogan "intellectually promiscuous."

According to reports, she even tried to convince sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to invest in her. Epstein did not agree to invest in the venture, but communication between them lasted for two years, she invited him to her housewarming party, and they connected on LinkedIn, according to documents revealed by the US Department of Justice in the case. The exposure of their correspondence may be another reason for Clark's choice to avoid the spotlight, especially in light of the significant media attention regarding everything related to Epstein and the upcoming Anthropic IPO.

The connection between Clark and Amodei, whose personal wealth is estimated at approximately $15.5 billion and is expected to jump further after the IPO, began in 2014, a period when he was still an academic and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine. The two married in 2022 in Italy, and according to acquaintances and associates, Clark's contribution to building her husband's career was significant: she was the one who ensured his ideas received the proper stage within a predatory industry, and even helped connect him with opinion leaders and key investors, led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, with whom she also had a romantic relationship for three years starting in 2011. Schmidt told Bloomberg in an interview that in 2018 he visited Amodei and Clark's apartment in San Francisco and was impressed by their ideas.

Clark is also the one who introduced Mira Murati, considered one of her closest friends after they worked together at Leap Motion, to OpenAI President Greg Brockman. Murati served as the company's CTO until she left last year to start her own AI startup. The technology site The Information described Clark as a "major player behind the scenes at Anthropic." People familiar with the details even defined her as the one who serves as the emotional anchor for Amodei, providing him with advice throughout the establishment and development of Anthropic. But despite her great influence on Amodei, Clark has no official role in the company, as mentioned. "She is likely the most significant person within Anthropic's inner circle who does not have an official role at the startup," The Information defined it.

According to reports, she did demand shares and offered investment ideas that would have cemented her status, but these were rejected by the other founders, including her sister-in-law, Daniela Amodei. Nevertheless, she continues to use her personal connections for the benefit of the company. Thus, against the backdrop of the confrontation between Anthropic and the Pentagon following the company's demand to limit how Claude is used, Clark explained to people in political circles that the company's goal is to protect the USA and it is not "WOKE," which has become a derogatory term under the Trump administration. But while Clark's influence on one of the most prominent tech companies of our time continues to expand, it seems her presence on the web is shrinking. According to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal, her personal details have been almost completely erased from the web.