By Jeffrey Dastin
(Reuters) – OpenAI’s board of administrators approached rival Anthropic’s CEO about changing chief Sam Altman and probably merging the 2 AI startups, in accordance with two folks briefed on the matter.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declined on each fronts, the folks stated.
The information, reported earlier by The Info on Monday, follows numerous reported calls to search out Altman’s successor days after OpenAI’s board ousted him.
OpenAI declined to remark and board member Adam D’Angelo didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
On Sunday the board provided ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to be its interim chief, who accepted. In the meantime, Altman agreed to affix the startup’s backer Microsoft together with different key personnel from OpenAI. By Monday, almost the entire startup’s greater than 700 staff threatened to stop, together with one in all its executives on OpenAI’s now four-person board.
The co-founders of Anthropic, who had been additionally executives at OpenAI till 2020, had damaged from their employer over disagreements concerning how to make sure AI’s secure improvement and governance.
Anthropic has gained investments from Alphabet’s Google and Amazon.com. Its Claude AI fashions have vied for prominence with OpenAI’s GPT collection.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco and Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Modifying by Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Sam Holmes)
