Cami Clark: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s wife is a Silicon Valley power player. But Claude barely knows her

There is an unusual blind spot surrounding one of the women closest to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Cami Clark is his wife, a familiar presence alongside him at some of Silicon Valley’s most influential gatherings and, according to people close to Anthropic, a sounding board and strategic adviser to the AI chief. Yet she has remained remarkably obscure outside those circles, according to a report by Wall Street Journal.

Even Claude, Anthropic’s own chatbot, has struggled to provide a clear account of her. Asked about Amodei’s marital status, it has responded that it “doesn’t seem to be clearly confirmed.”


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Behind that gap is a career that has taken Clark from an unconventional women-focused pornography startup and an attempted pitch to Jeffrey Epstein to the inner circles of Silicon Valley, OpenAI and Anthropic.

From ‘luxury porn’ to Silicon Valley

In 2011, Clark and business partner Michelle Capocefalo were looking for investors for Eddice, a women-focused pornography startup they described as a “revolutionary porn company”.

Literary agent John Brockman introduced the two women to Epstein, who was then a registered sex offender, according to government-released files reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

Brockman wrote to Epstein: “You should connect for dinner with my girls -- Cami and Michelle. They’re in LA raising money for porn movie aimed at women’s market.”

Clark followed up herself, reminding Epstein of their earlier meeting.

“We have the free luxury porn company. Does that ring a bell?” she reportedly wrote.

“​Yes, a loud gong,” Epstein replied.

Clark pitched him on investing in the company. Epstein declined. She then switched to another venture, a “social dieting app + website geared toward women” that would combine data from fitness trackers with information on nutrition, menstrual cycles, mood and location.

Their correspondence continued for roughly two years, according to the government-released Epstein files. Clark invited him to a housewarming party and later connected with him on LinkedIn.

The Epstein episode was one chapter in a career that would eventually bring Clark into the orbit of some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures.

Born in Reno, Nevada, in 1979, Clark did not graduate from college and moved through a series of entrepreneurial ventures. At 20, she married Reno architect Waldemar Eklof III, who was 64 at the time. They divorced three years later. She later filed for bankruptcy after a San Francisco apartment was foreclosed on.

Around 2010, Clark and Capocefalo founded Eddice, positioning it as a “sex-positive” alternative to traditionally male-oriented pornography. Its tagline was “intellectually promiscuous”.

The company sought $350,000 to produce its first four films, including “American Girl in Paris”.

Her network soon extended far beyond the adult-entertainment business.

From 2011, Clark was in a relationship with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt that lasted three years. Schmidt also invested in one of her later women’s-health ventures.

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Clark began dating Amodei in 2014, when he was still an academic and working as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford. Amodei had earned a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton and would later work at Baidu, Google and OpenAI.

Clark became part of his wider professional network. She introduced her close friend Mira Murati to OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman. Murati would later become OpenAI’s chief technology officer.

Clark also helped bring Amodei and Schmidt together. In 2018, Schmidt visited the couple at their San Francisco apartment and was impressed by their ideas, he later told Bloomberg.

A role at Anthropic without a title

In December 2020, Amodei, his sister Daniela and five other employees left OpenAI to establish Anthropic following tensions over power at the company.

Anthropic announced a $124 million Series A round in May 2021, with Schmidt among the investors.

Clark wanted a formal financial role in the new company.

In February 2021, she proposed a venture fund to Schmidt called the “Mother of AGI Fund”. A 40-page proposal described the fund as “an elegant solution to formalize Cami’s involvement in Anthropic (Dario’s company), manage Eric’s investment,” while also investing in “the AGI ecosystem”.

The proposal did not move forward after failing to win support from others at Anthropic.

The couple married in Italy not long afterward.

Clark has never held an official role at Anthropic. But people close to the company describe her as a sounding board and strategic adviser to Amodei. She is frequently seen alongside him at major technology and political gatherings.

At an AI summit in New Delhi earlier this year, executives were allowed to bring one additional person. While most brought colleagues, Amodei brought Clark.

She has also appeared with him at Davos and the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, where she has spoken with investors and other influential figures.

Her presence in those rooms is striking because Clark remains relatively unknown outside the circles surrounding Amodei.

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From AI circles to Washington

The contrast between Clark’s visibility among Silicon Valley insiders and her relative obscurity online is particularly pronounced.

Wall Street Journal's analysis found that efforts had been made to remove references to her. Amodei’s Wikipedia page acknowledged his marriage only this summer and still does not identify his wife.

Clark’s own career also moved beyond the adult-entertainment business into women’s health technology. The social-dieting venture she once pitched to Epstein evolved into a women’s healthcare AI company.

Her role has become more notable as Anthropic has entered the political spotlight.

The company clashed with the Trump administration after Amodei refused to drop restrictions on how Claude could be used by the Pentagon. The government labelled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, while the company challenged the designation in court. Additional restrictions imposed on Anthropic’s AI models were later dropped.

Clark has told people involved in politics that Anthropic sees its mission as protecting America and that the company is not as “woke” as its critics might believe.

At the Sun Valley conference in July, she spent much of the week alongside Amodei, had lunch with Ivanka Trump and spoke with Jared Kushner, whom Amodei had previously approached about investing.