OpenAI co-founder John Schulman has left Anthropic after lower than a 12 months

Lower than a 12 months 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 totally help his determination to pursue new alternatives and need him all the easiest,” mentioned Jared Kaplan, Anthropic’s chief science officer, in a press release the corporate shared with Engadget. Schulman left OpenAI last August alongside Peter Deng, the corporate’s former vice-president of client product. Schulman is taken into account one of many authentic architects of ChatGPT.

Following his departure from OpenAI, Schulman mentioned he was becoming a member of Anthropic to concentrate on AI alignment — the method of constructing machine studying fashions protected to make use of — and a want to return “to extra hands-on technical work.” Schulman hasn’t publicly mentioned why he determined to depart Anthropic, nor what he plans to do subsequent. His X profile nonetheless says he “just lately joined” Anthropic.

This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-co-founder-john-schulman-has-left-anthropic-after-less-than-a-year-171124425.html?src=rss

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