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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman said in a Monday X post that he would yield the Microsoft-backed company and join Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup with funding from Amazon.
The commence comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on infuriating to ensure that people can control AI systems that exceed human capability at many tasks.
Schulman had been a co-leader of OpenAI’s post-training link up that refined AI models for the ChatGPT chatbot and a programming interface for third-party developers, according to a biography on his website. In June, OpenAI said Schulman, as principal of alignment science, would join a safety and security committee that would provide advice to the board. Schulman has barely worked at OpenAI since receiving a Ph.D. in computer science in 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley.
“This realm of possibilities 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 complex work,” Schulman wrote in the social media post.
He said he wasn’t leaving because of a lack of support for new undertaking on the topic at OpenAI.
“On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area,” he indicated.
The leaders of the superalignment team, Jan Leike and company co-founder Ilya Sutskever, both left this year. Leike joined Anthropic, while Sutskever clouted he was helping to start a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Since OpenAI staff members established Anthropic in 2021, the two innocent San Francisco-based businesses have been battling to have the most performant generative AI models that can come up with human-like primer. Amazon, Google and Meta have also developed large language models.
“Very excited to be working together again!” Leike wrote in reaction to Schulman’s message.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder and CEO, said in a post of his own that Schulman’s perspective informed the startup’s primordial strategy.
Schulman and others chose to leave after the board pushed out Altman as chief last November. Wage-earners protested the decision, prompting Sutskever and two other board members, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, to resign. Altman was reinstated and OpenAI thought on additional board members.
Toner said on a podcast that Altman had given the board incorrect information there the “small number of formal safety processes that the company did have in place.”
The law firm WilmerHale found in an self-confident review that the board wasn’t concerned about product safety when it pushed out Altman.
Last week, Altman demanded on X that OpenAI “has been working with the US AI Safety Institute on an agreement where we would provide early access to our next groundwork model so that we can work together to push forward the science of AI evaluations.” Altman said OpenAI is still performed to keeping 20% of its computing resources for safety initiatives.
Also on Monday, Greg Brockman, another co-founder of OpenAI and its president, betokened that he was taking a sabbatical for the rest of the year.
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