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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman said in a Monday X post that he Microsoftsupported by the company and join Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup funded by Amazon.
The move came less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team whose goal was to ensure that humans could control AI systems that exceed human capabilities on many tasks.
Schulman co-led OpenAI's post-training team, which refined AI models for the chatbot ChatGPT and a programming interface for outside developers, according to a biography on his website. In June, OpenAI said Schulman would join a safety committee that advises the board as head of alignment science. Schulman has only been working at OpenAI since earning his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016.
“This decision stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI direction and begin a new chapter in my career where I can return to hands-on engineering work,” Schulman wrote in the social media post.
He said his departure was not due to a lack of support at OpenAI for new work on the topic.
“On the contrary, business leaders have been very committed to investing in this area,” he said.
Superalignment team leaders Jan Leike and company co-founder Ilya Sutskever both left the company this year. Leike joined Anthropic, while Sutskever said he is helping to launch a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Since OpenAI employees founded Anthropic in 2021, the two young San Francisco-based companies have been racing to develop the most powerful generative AI models that can produce human-like text. Amazon, Google and Meta have also developed large language models.
“I’m so excited to be working together again!” Leike wrote in response to Schulman’s message.
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, said in a separate post that Schulman's perspective influenced the startup's early strategy.
Schulman and others decided to leave after the board removed Altman as chief last November. Employees protested the decision, and Sutskever and two other board members, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, resigned. Altman was reinstated and OpenAI hired additional board members.
Toner said in a podcast that Altman gave the board false information about the “few formal security processes that actually existed within the company.”
Law firm WilmerHale conducted an independent review and found that the board did not consider product safety when firing Altman.
Last week, Altman said on X that OpenAI has been “working with the US AI Safety Institute on an agreement where we will provide early access to our next baseline model so that together we can advance the science of AI assessments.” Altman said OpenAI remains committed to dedicating 20% of its computing resources to safety initiatives.
Also on Monday, Greg Brockman, another co-founder and president of OpenAI, announced that he would be taking a break for the rest of the year.
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