In an organizational update, OpenAI announced that Dario Amodei, VP of Research, was leaving after nearly five years with the company. Amodei had contributed to building GPT-2 and GPT-3 and co-led the direction of OpenAI's research alongside Ilya Sutskever. The announcement said Amodei and a handful of colleagues were planning a new project expected to focus less on product development and more on research. In the same update, Mira Murati was named senior vice president of Research, Product, and Partnerships.
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Dario Amodei, VP of Research, and colleagues leave OpenAI
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28 May 2021 · Development
The departing members went on to found Anthropic in early 2021. On May 28, 2021, the company announced a $124 million Series A, with Dario Amodei as CEO and his sister Daniela Amodei as President.