Yglesias: AI doomers were the prescient ones — plus the FTX-Anthropic money trail
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-10-13
- Matthew Yglesias argued the people prescient about AI are the "doomers" who founded OpenAI and Anthropic, while accelerationists were the NFT/Metaverse crowd — drawing mockery from AI circles.
- The accompanying graphic adds FTX-era backstory: FTX/Alameda put $500M of customer funds into Anthropic before collapsing; OpenAI floated a merger with Anthropic in late 2023 and was declined; the FTX estate sold its 8% Anthropic stake for over $1B; Leopold Aschenbrenner went from FTX Future Fund to OpenAI's Superalignment team, then founded his own AI fund.
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