Former Anthropic growth employee Austin Chen joins OpenAI
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Austin Chen says on X that he recently joined OpenAI after working on Anthropic's growth function, which he says he helped build.
He describes the work there as challenging and jokes that Anthropic has better coffee and drinks while OpenAI has better snacks. The report is based on Chen's own post, relayed by Andrew Curran, and does not include any statement from either company.
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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_XFormer Anthropic growth team member joins OpenAI, says Austin ChenAIAustin Chen says he recently joined OpenAI after working on Anthropic's growth function. He says he helped build that function and worked on challenging problems there, and he jokes that Anthropic has better coffee and drinks while OpenAI has better snacks.
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