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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic


Schulman said OpenAI executives remain committed to backing efforts to ensure that people can control highly capable artificial intelligence models.

The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on trying to ensure that people can control AI systems that exceed human capability at many tasks. "This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work," Schulman wrote in the social media post. Since OpenAI staff members established Anthropic in 2021, the two young San Francisco-based businesses have been battling to have the most performant generative AI models that can come up with human-like text.

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