Another Anthropic researcher defects to OpenAI, and the talk is money over mission
karmay007 · x · 2026-11-05
Andrew Curran notes someone unusually left Anthropic's "embrace of Claude" for OpenAI. Commenter karmay007's take: people assume researchers chase "vision" over money, but that's never really the case — pointing to compensation as the real driver of AI talent moves.
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