Dario Amodei wanted OpenAI to stop taking Peter Thiel’s money over a $1.25 million campaign donation; called Thiel morally worthy of…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei once wanted OpenAI to stop taking money from billionaire investor Peter Thiel. The trigger was the $1.25 million Thiel gave to support Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, a move Amodei said made him “morally worthy of condemnation.” At the time, Amodei was a few months into his job at OpenAI, where he led the safety team. He posted the remarks on the company’s internal messaging app, according to a report by The New York Times.
Thiel’s money found its way to Amodei anyway, a decade later. Founders Fund, the venture capital firm Thiel co-founded, made its first direct investment in Anthropic in February this year.
