OPENAI CO-FOUNDER JOHN SCHULMAN SAYS HE WILL LEAVE AND JOIN RIVAL ANTHROPIC

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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman recently announced that he will leave OpenAI to join Anthropic to deepen his focus on AI alignment. The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on ensuring that AI systems can be controlled. Schulman has worked at OpenAI since receiving a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. Greg Brockman, another co-founder of OpenAI and its president, announced on Monday that he was taking a sabbatical for the rest of the year.