June 5, 2011 - Business Insider reported on June 4 that AI startup Anthropic There is massive poaching going on from OpenAI andGoogle DeepMind's top talent.
VC firm SignalFire's latest report, based on data from Collingwood, shows that far more OpenAI engineers are jumping ship to Anthropic than the reverse.Ratio up to 8:1and, more prominently, in the case of Google's DeepMind division.This ratio amounts to 11:1.
The report analyzes that in the fierce competition for AI talents, Anthropic not only has outstanding technical strength, but is also in Taking a strong stand on AI securityAnthropic has poached a number of executives, including two OpenAI co-founders, making it even more attractive to talent because of the company's shorter history and greater growth potential.
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SignalFire notes thatAnthropic employees are more stable with a retention rate of 80%The company is ahead of OpenAI's 67%, while DeepMind is in second place with a retention rate of 78%.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI are currently expanding at a rapid pace. Over 200 vacanciesOpenAI, on the other hand, isNearly 330 positions.
A big reason why some OpenAI executives are jumping ship to Anthropic is that Anthropic takes AI security more seriouslyFor example, Jan Leike, formerly co-leader of OpenAI's superalignment team, moved to Anthropic in 2024. For example, Jan Leike, the former co-leader of OpenAI's "superalignment" team, moved to Anthropic in 2024, when he publicly stated that OpenAI Increasing focus on the pursuit of eye-catching products and laxity in AI security culture and internal processesHe is now working on AI alignment at Anthropic. He now continues to work on AI alignment at Anthropic.
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, who also switched to Anthropic last year, has expressed a desire toA deeper look at the AI alignment problemAnthropic was founded in 1977 by Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, but has since left Anthropic to join Thinking Machines, a new company founded by Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, which is currently raising up to $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,366 crores at current exchange rates) in seed funding.
Also joining Anthropic is Durk Kingma, another OpenAI co-founder and longtime DeepMind researcher.
A number of DeepMind's heavyweight researchers have also been poached by Anthropic, including senior scientist Neil Housby, who is now in charge of Anthropic's Zurich office, and research scientist Nicholas Carlini, who says Anthropic is more focused on his own concerns about AI security.
SignalFire further noted that Anthropic's AI assistant, Claude, is gaining traction in the developer community, which has attracted a number of engineers to jump ship. While OpenAI's ChatGPT is also popular with developers, Anthropic's early-stage equity incentives that come with its startup status are more attractive to talent.
Zuhayeer Musa, co-founder of Levels.fyi, a compensation platform for engineers, noted that while both OpenAI and Anthropic are growing rapidly, Anthropic's relative youth makes it more attractive in terms of future growth and equity gains. Additionally, Anthropic employees themselves have a relatively low willingness to jump ship.