Researcher slams OpenAI and Anthropic as grifters who invented nothing of significance
examachine · x · 2026-10-17
An AI researcher argues the "great innovator" narrative around OpenAI and Anthropic is factually wrong: neither company nor its spinoffs (SSI, Thinking Machines) invented anything significant, and today's advances came from tens of thousands of researchers worldwide. He adds Karpathy and Ilya aren't particularly smart and will block anyone glorifying these "grifter companies."
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