OpenAI's Co-founder John Schulman Leaves to Join Anthropic for AI Alignment Research

TapTechNews August 6th news, the co-founder of OpenAI, John Schulman, officially announced his departure today and will join the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.

Schulman stated in his farewell letter to his colleagues at OpenAI that he chose to leave in order to focus more on AI alignment research and start a new chapter in his career at Anthropic.

He emphasized that the departure is not due to insufficient support from OpenAI in alignment research, but a personal career development choice.

Nearly 9 years ago, Schulman joined OpenAI after graduating from graduate school and became a member of the founding team. This is the first and only company he has worked for. I believe that even without me, OpenAI and the team will continue to thrive.

TapTechNews noticed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his gratitude to Schulman in the comment below and praised him as a talented researcher, a person with deep thoughts about products and society, and also a good friend of all of us.

OpenAI research director Bob McGrew also replied: I will miss the time when we trekked long distances to discuss research ideas, and the whole company will miss your exemplary leadership.

And the former OpenAI security director and super alignment leader, Jan Leike, who has now joined Anthropic, replied: Very glad to be able to cooperate again!