One of the co-founders of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence startup, John Schulman, announced late on Monday that he had left the firm to join rival Anthropic, the manufacturer of ChatGPT.
In his X post, opens new tab, Schulman stated, “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.”
Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of OpenAI, announced late on Monday that he will be taking a leave of absence through the end of the year in an X post.
The Information broke the story first, including mentioning the departure of Peter Deng, a product manager who joined OpenAI last year.
A request for comment from Reuters was not immediately answered by OpenAI.
The decision was made in light of the substantial staff changes OpenAI is experiencing, including the July reassignment of AI safety chief Aleksander Madry to a new position.
Ilya Sutskever, another co-founder and head scientist of OpenAI, departed the business in May. One of the original founders of the AI company, Andrej Karpathy, quit OpenAI in February and launched an AI-enhanced learning platform in July.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and a co-founder of OpenAI, resurrected his lawsuit against Sam Altman and the company on Monday, claiming that the business prioritized money and commercial interests over the general welfare. Musk departed the company three years later.
