{"id":1012795,"date":"2026-06-06T11:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012795"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:13:01","slug":"anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-on-leaving-sam-altmans-openai-to-start-anthropic-there-were-a-lot-of-folks-inside-who-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-on-leaving-sam-altmans-openai-to-start-anthropic-there-were-a-lot-of-folks-inside-who-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on leaving Sam Altman&#8217;s OpenAI to start Anthropic: There were a lot of folks inside who didn&#8217;t\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, has revealed the two core convictions that drove him to leave OpenAI and build what is now one of its most formidable rivals\u2014scaling laws and safety. In a candid conversation on investor Nikhil Kamath&#8217;s podcast WTF Is, Amodei traced his departure back to 2019, when early experiments with GPT-2 began showing him something most of his colleagues weren&#8217;t ready to accept.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You find incredible increases in performance,&#8221; he said, describing what happens when you scale models up with more data and compute. &#8220;There were a lot of folks inside and outside who didn&#8217;t believe it at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, has revealed the two core convictions that drove him to leave OpenAI and build what is now one of its most formidable rivals\u2014scaling laws and safety. In a candid conversation on investor Nikhil Kamath&#8217;s podcast WTF Is, Amodei traced his departure back to 2019, when early experiments with GPT-2 began showing him something most of his colleagues weren&#8217;t ready to accept. &#8220;You find incredible increases in performance,&#8221; he said, describing what happens when you scale models up with more data and compute. &#8220;There were a lot of folks inside and outside who didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012796,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012795\/revisions\/1012796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}