OpenAI Co-founder Schulman Joins Anthropic, Brockman Takes Extended Leave
In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman quit OpenAI and decided to join the rival AI lab, Anthropic. On the other hand, Greg Brockman, OpenAI president and one of the co-founders has gone on a “sabbatical” through the end of this year. First reported byThe Information, and officially confirmed by Schulman and Brockman on X, it seems OpenAI leadership is again going through some transition. After Jan Leike resigned from OpenAI and joined Anthropic in May over a lack of compute for alignment research and safety concerns, John Schulman became the head of alignment research at the company....