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whipper reported that on october 2, according to foreign reports, durk kingma is one of the little-known co-founders of openai. today he announced that he will join anthropic.

in a series of posts on

when reached for comment, a spokesperson for anthropic pointed to kingma's post.

"anthropic's approach to ai development resonates greatly with my own beliefs," kingma wrote. “looking forward to contributing to anthropic’s mission of responsibly developing powerful ai systems. can’t wait to work with their talented team, which includes many great former colleagues from openai and google, and tackle the challenges ahead!”

kingma holds a phd in machine learning from the university of amsterdam and spent several years as a phd researcher at google before joining the founding team of openai as a research scientist.

at openai, kingma focuses on basic research and leads the algorithm team to develop technologies and methods mainly for generative ai models, including image generators (such as dall-e 3) and large language models (such as chatgpt).

in 2018, kingma left google and became a part-time angel investor and advisor to ai startups. in july of the same year, he rejoined google and began working on google brain. google brain became one of the tech giant's premier ai r&d labs before merging with deepmind in 2023.

kingma's hiring is another talent war for anthropic, which recruited openai's former security chief jan leike in may and another openai co-founder john schulman in august. the company made another high-profile hire in may, naming instagram and artifact co-founder mike krieger as its first product chief.

anthropic ceo dario amodei, who previously served as openai's vice president of research, reportedly parted ways with the company over disagreements with openai's roadmap, namely its growing commercial focus. amodei founded anthropic with a number of former openai employees, including jack clark, openai's former head of policy.

anthropic often tries to position itself as more security-focused than openai.