Lower than a yr into his tenure on the firm, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is leaving Anthropic. The startup confirmed Schulman’s departure after The Information, Reuters and different publications reported on the exit.
"We’re unhappy to see John go however absolutely help his choice to pursue new alternatives and need him all the perfect,” stated Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's chief science officer, in an announcement the corporate shared with Engadget. Schulman left OpenAI final August alongside Peter Deng, the corporate’s former vice-president of shopper product. Schulman is taken into account one of many authentic architects of ChatGPT.
Following his departure from OpenAI, Schulman stated he was becoming a member of Anthropic to concentrate on AI alignment — the method of creating machine studying fashions protected to make use of — and a want to return “to extra hands-on technical work.” Schulman hasn’t publicly stated why he determined to go away Anthropic, nor what he plans to do subsequent. His X profile nonetheless says he “just lately joined” Anthropic.
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