OpenAI Co-Founder Joins Anthropic!

OpenAI, which managed to become the most prominent company in artificial intelligence with ChatGPT, has not been going through a good period on the management side lately. So much so that almost all the founders and senior executives, except CEO Sam Altman, began to leave the company. Just last week we saw the resignation of CTO Mira Murati.

Now, a similar development has occurred again. However, we cannot call this time a departure from OpenAI. A co-founder who left years ago from the company’s competitors passed to someone else.

Little-known OpenAI founder Durk Kingma moves to Anthropic

He is in the founding team of OpenAI, but his name is not as well known as the others. Durk Kingmaone of OpenAI’s biggest competitors with his post on X Switched to Anthropic explained. While Kingma stated that he would mostly work remotely from the Netherlands, he did not detail which department and position of Anthropic he joined.

Anthropic was a company we saw with successful large language models similar to GPT. Kingma explains how this company approaches AI development agrees with their own beliefs He stated that this is why he participated.

kingma, machine learning He is a researcher who received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in his field. over the years After working at Google Then, in 2015, he became one of the founders of OpenAI. In 2018, he left his position at OpenAI. He continued to live as an investor and consultant in the field of artificial intelligence.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Anthropic hire someone with ties to OpenAI. OpenAI’s security leader in May Jan Leikeanother founding partner in August John Schulman added him to his staff.