Pretraining Researcher Departs OpenAI and Anthropic

A pretraining researcher who spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic announced her departure, saying neither lab could complete a full line of thought and both are racing toward self-improving superintelligence, sparking discussion about AI safety funding networks.

2026-09-11 ~ 2026-09-11 · 2 related posts

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