OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he’s joining rival Anthropic
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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman said in a Monday X post that he is leaving Microsoft– The company is backed and involved with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup funded by Amazon.
The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disband a hyperlinked team focuses on trying to ensure that humans can control AI systems that exceed human capabilities in many tasks.
Schulman was a co-leader of OpenAI’s graduate training group, which refined AI models for the ChatGPT chatbot and programming interface for third-party developers, according to his bio. website. In June, OpenAI speak Schulman, as head of alignment science, will join a safety and security committee that advises the board. Schulman has worked at OpenAI since receiving his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016.
“This choice comes from a desire to focus more deeply on AI engagement and to start a new chapter in my career where I can return to hands-on engineering work,” Schulman wrote in social media post.
He said he did not leave because of a lack of support for new research on the topic at OpenAI.
“On the contrary, corporate leaders are very committed to investing in this area,” he said.
The leaders of the hyperlink group, Jan Leike and company co-founder Ilya Sutskever, both left this year. Leike has joined Anthropicwhile Sutskever said he was help to get started a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Since OpenAI employees founded Anthropic in 2021, the two young San Francisco-based companies have struggled to get AI models to produce the best possible performance at reproducing human-like text. Amazon, Google, and Meta have also developed large language models.
“So excited to be working together again!” Leike wrote in reply with Schulman’s message.
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, said in a parcel It is his own belief that Schulman’s views shaped the startup’s early strategy.
Schulman and others chose to leave after the board pushed Altman out as director last November. Employees protested the decision, prompting Sutskever and two other board members, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, to resign. Altman was reinstated. and OpenAI has added board members.
Toner mentioned above audio file that Altman had provided the board with inaccurate information about “the few formal safety procedures the company had in place.”
WilmerHale Law Firm was found in a review that the board did not care about product safety when it fired Altman.
Last week, Altman said on X that OpenAI “has been working with the US AI Safety Institute on an agreement where we will provide early access to the next foundational model so that we can advance the science of AI evaluation together.” Altman said OpenAI remains committed to reserving 20% of its computing resources for safety initiatives.
Also on Monday, Greg Brockman, another OpenAI co-founder and the company’s president, announced that he would join leave for the rest of the year.
