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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declined on both fronts, the people
said.
The news, reported earlier by The Information on Monday, follows
various reported calls to find Altman's successor days after
OpenAI's board ousted him.
OpenAI declined to comment and board member Adam D'Angelo did
not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Sunday the board offered ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to be its
interim chief, who accepted. Meanwhile, Altman agreed to join
the startup's backer Microsoft along with other key personnel
from OpenAI. By Monday, nearly all of the startup's more than
700 employees threatened to quit, including one of its
executives on OpenAI's now four-person board.
The co-founders of Anthropic, who were also executives at OpenAI
until 2020, had broken from their employer over disagreements
regarding how to ensure AI's safe development and governance.
Anthropic has won investments from Alphabet's Google and
Amazon.com. Its Claude AI models have vied for prominence with
OpenAI's GPT series.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco and Urvi Dugar in
Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Sam Holmes)
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