OpenAI’s board of directors approached rival Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, a large language model developer, about a possible merger between the two companies, according to people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI's board of directors fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday as part of the company's efforts to persuade Amodei to succeed Altman as CEO. It's unclear whether the merger proposal sparked serious discussion. Because of his position at Anthropic, Amodei quickly turned down the offer to become OpenAI CEO. (The Information)