Anthropic has hired John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, to work for them instead.
The company also revealed that OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman is taking a long leave that will last until the end of the year to “relax and recharge.” Brockman has worked for the company for nine years.
I’m taking a break until the end of the year. This is my first break since helping to start OpenAI nine years ago. We still need to build a safe AGI before the task is over.
A product manager named Peter Deng left OpenAI not long ago. He had joined the company last year after running products at Meta, Uber, and Airtable. The Information was the first to report that Brockman and Deng were leaving.
A spokesperson for Schulman said this about him: “We’re grateful for John’s contributions as a founding team member at OpenAI and his hard work in advancing alignment research.” His dedication and hard work have built a strong base that will encourage and aid future breakthroughs at OpenAI and in the field as a whole.
Schulman wrote about his choice on X today, saying that he made it because he wanted to focus more on AI alignment (the science of making sure AI works the way it’s supposed to) and do more hands-on technical work.
Schulman said, “I’ve decided to work toward this goal at Anthropic because I think I can learn new things and do research with people who are really interested in the same things I am.” “I’m sure OpenAI and the teams I worked with will continue to do well without me.”
Schulman began working with OpenAI soon after getting his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in electrical engineering and computer studies. He was very important in making the AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT because he was in charge of OpenAI’s reinforcement training organization, which makes generative AI models better at following human directions.
After Jan Leike, an AI safety researcher who now works at Anthropic, quit, Schulman took over as head of OpenAI’s alignment science work, which is also known as the “post-training” team. He was also on OpenAI’s new safety committee, but it’s not clear who might take Schulman’s place in that position.
Even though OpenAI is in a lot of trouble, especially because of how the company handles and approaches AI safety research, Schulman said he wasn’t moving because he didn’t feel supported.
“The leaders of the company have been very committed to investing in alignment research,” Schulman said. “I made my own choice based on how I want to focus my work in the next part of my career.”
Now that Schulman has left, only three of OpenAI’s original leaders are left: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Brockman, and Wojciech Zaremba, who is in charge of language and code generation.
As Schulman wrote in a post on X, “Thank you for everything you’ve done for OpenAI!””You are a great friend to all of us and a brilliant researcher. You think deeply about brands and society.” We’ll miss you a lot and want you to be proud of this place.
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Update: This story was first released at 5:38 p.m. and was changed to include OpenAI’s confirmation that Brockman and Deng are leaving.
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