OpenAI Cofounder John Schulman Leaves ChatGPt to Join Rival Anthropic

One of the co-founders of artificial intelligence company OpenAI John Schulman left the ChatGPT maker to join rival Anthropic

In a late Monday post on X, Schulman said, “This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work.” Schulman said in his X post.

OpenAI’s President and co-founder Greg Brockman is also taking a sabbatical through the end of the year, he added in a X post on Monday.

Another one of OpenAI’s co-founders and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, left the company in May. Andrej Karpathy, who was OpenAI’s founding member left to start an AI-integrated education platform in July.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who was also one of the co-founders of OpenAI has also left it.