Ex-Meta execs at OpenAI are 'running in challenger mode,' sparked by the Anthropic threat
ashleymayer · x · 2026-09-07
Ashley Mayer observes that despite a painful re-ordering with Anthropic, OpenAI now feels like it's thriving as the challenger brand. Retweeter hkarthik offers a theory: with many ex-Meta folks in OpenAI leadership, the company has activated a 'challenger mode' these leaders honed at Meta competing against Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok — and Anthropic, not the imagined Google/Gemini threat, is what finally triggered it.
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