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turned down what offer? was it a serious offer? i doubt anthropic had the funds to actually acquire it.

• hackerlight 3y ago
  The board approached the Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei) and proposed a merger with him as CEO. Possibly because he presents as safety conscious. He declined.
  • woah 3y ago
    Wow that seems incredibly stupid. But I guess maybe he knew that he would get kneecapped by some backroom corporate jiujitsu by Sam who would then take over the new merged company, leaving Dario with nothing except for an incredibly fat severance payout and all his stock.
  • samspenc 3y ago
    More about that board move here https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-approached-anthropic-about-merger https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-approached-an... And non-paywalled https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/report-openai-tried-and-failed-to-hire-anthropic-ceo-to-replace-sam-altman/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/report-openai-tr...