Domingos: OpenAI had its own Traitorous Eight — they left to found Anthropic
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-16
AI scholar and UW professor Pedro Domingos drew a historical parallel: just as Shockley's lab had the Traitorous Eight who left to found Fairchild, OpenAI had its own traitorous eight — who left to start Anthropic.
The analogy pairs Silicon Valley's most famous talent exodus with today's biggest AI company split, evoking the Fairchild lineage that seeded the valley: top labs losing their best people often incubate the next generation of giants.
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