President and co-founder Greg Brockman, co-founder John Shulman (joining rival Anthropic), and product leader Peter Deng are leaving OpenAI.

wow.

openai cofounder and head of alignment john schulman is joining anthropic.

https://x.com/johnschulman2/status/1820610863499509855?s=46

https://x.com/gdb/status/1820644694264791459?s=46 

https://warpcast.com/gm8xx8/0x0c0bfcea

I like the theory that they fully wrapped GPT-5 and Q* and are just waiting for QA to complete and marketing to figure out a good release timeline. Not a lot of technical work to be done until then, so it's a good time to move and/or take a break for a while.