Anthropic cofounder praises OpenAI's repeated strategic pivots as Altman teases compute-heavy Pro offerings
CShorten30 · x · 2026-10-03
- Brandon Tierney (lateinteraction), Anthropic cofounder and ex-OpenAI researcher, published a long thread praising OpenAI's rare ability to bet aggressively on its ideas while gracefully vectoring outside them: pivoting from raw scaling to post-training (GPT-4), from raw models to systems (ChatGPT with search, code execution, tools), from next-token prediction to chains of thought and longer trajectories, and from a single general AGI interface to downstream products.
- He quoted Sam Altman's official teaser that OpenAI will launch several compute-intensive offerings in the coming weeks, some initially limited to Pro subscribers with additional fees for new products, while still aiming to drive the cost of intelligence down over time.
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