John Schulman, a co-founder of OpenAI, announced he will leave the company to join rival Anthropic, an AI safety startup. At OpenAI, Schulman worked on refining models and led the post-training team. He was recently put in charge of a safety committee. Schulman said he wants to focus more on AI alignment and do hands-on technical work again. OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to develop powerful generative AI models that can have human-like conversations. Schulman said OpenAI executives are committed to safety work, but he wants a new challenge at Anthropic.
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00:02John Shulman, a co-founder of OpenAI, announced he will leave the company to join rival Anthropic,
00:08an AI safety startup.
00:10At OpenAI, Shulman worked on refining models and led the post-training team.
00:14He was recently put in charge of a safety committee.
00:17Shulman said he wants to focus more on AI alignment and do hands-on technical work again.
00:22OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to develop powerful, generative AI models that can have
00:26human-like conversations.
00:28Shulman said OpenAI executives are committed to safety work, but he wants a new challenge
00:32at Anthropic.
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