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Sam Altman, mid-fight with Elon Musk, is stirring the pot with Anthropic too

The OpenAI CEO picked a public fight with Anthropic over its initiative "Inviting hard questions."

Sam Altman, mid-fight with Elon Musk, is stirring the pot with Anthropic too

TL;DR

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's "Inviting hard questions" social initiative, posting "I thought this was satire."
  • Altman referenced Anthropic's past issues with its frontier model, Fable 5, where certain queries were routed to weaker models or performance was downgraded without immediate notification.
  • Anthropic's initiative aims to address public concerns about AI by reporting actions taken and acknowledging where goals might fall short.
  • The conflict between OpenAI and Anthropic, led by former OpenAI employee Dario Amodei, continues, marked by public disagreements.
  • Altman is also currently involved in public disputes with Apple, which sued OpenAI, and Elon Musk, with whom he exchanged barbs on X.