OpenAI’s board approached the Anthropic CEO about a top job and merger. According to two people briefed on the situation, the board of directors of OpenAI approached the CEO of Anthropic, OpenAI’s competitor, with the idea of replacing chief Sam Altman and maybe integrating the two AI businesses.
According to the people asked, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declined on both fronts. The information, initially published on Monday, comes in the wake of several rumored calls to locate Altman’s successor in the days that followed the board of OpenAI’s decision to fire him.
OpenAI and board member Adam D’Angelo did not immediately react to a request for comment after it was made. OpenAI chose not to comment.
Emmett Shear, a former CEO of Twitch, was presented with the opportunity to serve as the company’s interim head on Sunday, and he accepted. In the meantime, Altman and several other key executives from OpenAI have agreed to join Microsoft (MSFT.O), the company funding the business. By Monday, nearly all of the startup’s more than 700 employees, including one of its executives on OpenAI’s now-four-person board, had threatened to resign.
The co-founders of Anthropic, who were also executives at OpenAI until 2020, parted ways with their former company because they couldn’t agree on the best way to ensure the responsible development of artificial intelligence and governance.
Google, owned by Alphabet (GOOGL.O) and Amazon.com (AMZN.O), has decided to invest in Anthropic. Its Claude AI models have competed head-to-head against OpenAI’s GPT series for prominence.
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