Another co-founder of OpenAI announces that he is moving to Anthropic, one of its biggest competitors

OpenAI, which managed to become the leading company in the field of artificial intelligence with ChatGPT, has not had a good period on the management side lately. So much so that almost all of the founders and senior managers, except CEO Sam Altman, started leaving the company. Last week we saw the resignation of CTO Mira Murati.

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

Little-known OpenAI founder Durk Kingma is moving to Anthropic

He is on the founding team of OpenAI, but his name is not as well known as the others. Durk Kingmaone of OpenAI’s biggest competitors with its post on X Switched to Anthropic he explained. Although Kingma stated that he would mainly work remotely from the Netherlands, he did not indicate which department and function of Anthropic he would join.

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

kingma, machine learning He is a researcher who obtained his PhD in his field from the University of Amsterdam. over the years After working at Google He then became one of the founders of OpenAI in 2015. In 2018 he left his position at OpenAI. He continued to make a living as an investor and advisor in the field of artificial intelligence.

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