Thursday, August 8, 2024

"OpenAI Is Rapidly Losing Senior Members to Rival Anthropic"

Curious.

From Observer, August 7:

A trio of leadership departures from OpenAI leaves the A.I. company with only two active members of its original founding team.

In a series of seemingly unrelated departures, OpenAI is losing three of its top leaders. Greg Brockman, the A.I. company’s president; John Schulman, co-head of its post-training team; and Peter Deng, an OpenAI product head, have all recently stepped away from the company in one form or another.

Brockman will be taking time off through the end of the year, he announced in an X post earlier this week. The sabbatical will be his “first time to relax” since co-founding OpenAI some nine years ago, he said. Deng, meanwhile, reportedly decided to leave his position as vice president of product earlier this year. He joined OpenAI in 2023 and formerly held product leader positions at companies like Meta (META) and Uber (UBER)....

....MUCH MORE

Did a tranche of options just vest? Is Sam Altman as insufferable as he seems?

So many questions.