OpenAI co-founder quits, to join rival Anthropic; CEO Sam Altman responds

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Photographer: Bloomberg2 min read Last Updated : Aug 06 2024 | 4:31 PM IST John Schulman, a co-founder of OpenAI, announced his exit
from the company on Tuesday (August 6)
He is set to join OpenAI's rival Anthropic. In a post on social media platform X, Schulman said that he is making this move "to deepen his
focus on AI alignment and return to hands-on technical work in a new chapter of his career". OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also commented on the
post, showing his gratitude
He said, "Thank you for everything you've done for OpenAI!" Additionally, OpenAI's president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, shared in a
post on X that he will be taking a sabbatical until the end of the year
First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI nine years ago
December 2015, just before completing his PhD in electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley
Altman, Brockman, and Wojciech Zaremba, lead of language and code generation.OpenAI: High attrition rate Another co-founder and chief
scientist, Ilya Sutskever, left the company in May
Additionally, Andrej Karpathy, also a founding member, departed in February to start an AI-integrated education platform in July. Peter
Deng, a product manager who joined OpenAI last year after leading products at Meta, Uber, and Airtable, also exited some time ago
The most talked-about exit was of Elon Musk, also a co-founder of OpenAI, who has filed a lawsuit against the company and CEO Sam Altman
Musk has alleged that the firm prioritises profits and commercial interests over the public good.First Published: Aug 06 2024 | 4:31 PMIST