TREE NEWS reports: The Atlantic’s Kevin Roose, after years of reporting and interviews with more than 150 people, detailed the rift that led seven OpenAI leaders to leave in December 2020 and found Anthropic. The break traced to a 2017 “Countries Plan” that would have auctioned OpenAI’s future AGI rights to governments, which then-research VP Dario Amodei opposed in a December 2017 email. He and six colleagues were cut off mid-meeting.
Atlantic Investigation Details OpenAI-Anthropic Split Over 2017 ‘Countries Plan’
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The reported account reframes the OpenAI–Anthropic split as a governance dispute over who would control AGI outcomes, not a routine corporate falling-out. That matters for how both labs' safety-first positioning is read by partners and regulators, since the disagreement concerned state involvement rather than technical direction. Whether this episode resurfaces in current policy debates over public oversight of frontier models is the open question.
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