OpenAI Co-founder John Schulman Joins Rival Anthropic
OpenAI’s President and co-founder Greg Brockman also revealed that he would be stepping down from his position until the end of the year
John Schulman, one of the co-founders at OpenAI, resigned from the company on Monday evening. Schulman stated on social media that he will be joining Anthropic, a competitor in the field of artificial intelligence, to "deepen my focus on AI alignment" and return to hands-on technical work.
"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 said in his X post.
In the meantime, OpenAI’s President and co-founder Greg Brockman revealed that he would be stepping down from his position until the end of the year. The news was reported by The Information and then, the departure of another product manager Peter Deng, who joined OpenAI last year has also surfaced.
The change comes as the company has experienced a series of top executive reshuffles including the AI safety head Aleksander Madry’s reassignment in July and broad departures of co-founders Ilya Sutskever earlier in May and Andrej Karpathy in February.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, who left the company in 2018, reignited a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday, accusing the ChatGPT maker of prioritising profits and commercial interests over the public good.
