Durk Kingma, one in every of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll join Anthropic.
In a series of posts
An Anthropic spokesperson was contacted for comment and referred to Kingma's posts.
“Anthropic’s approach to AI development clearly aligns with my very own beliefs,” Kingma wrote. “I look ahead to contributing to Anthropic’s mission to responsibly develop powerful AI systems.” I can’t wait to work with their talented team, including various great former colleagues from OpenAI and Google, and tackle the challenges ahead! “
Kingma, who has a Ph.D. He studied machine learning on the University of Amsterdam and worked as a PhD student at Google for several years before joining the founding team of OpenAI as a research associate. At OpenAI, Kingma focused on fundamental research and led the algorithm team in developing techniques and methods primarily for generative AI models, including image generators (e.g. DALL-E 3) and enormous language models (e.g. ChatGPT).
In 2018, Kingma left the corporate to develop into a part-time angel investor and advisor to AI startups. He returned to Google in July this 12 months, starting at Google Brain, which became one in every of the tech giant's leading AI research and development labs before merging with DeepMind in 2023.
Kingma's hiring is one other talent coup for Anthropic, which recruited OpenAI's former head of security, Jan Leike, in May and one other OpenAI co-founder, John Schulman, in August. The company made one other high-profile hire in May, naming Instagram and Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger as its first head of product.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was once vp of research at OpenAI and allegedly parted ways with the corporate after a disagreement over OpenAI's roadmap – particularly its growing industrial focus. Amodei brought various former OpenAI employees with him to begin Anthropic, including Jack Clark, OpenAI's former policy director.
Anthropic has often tried to position itself as more security-focused than OpenAI.
