About this map
The 2015 founders, the walkout that became Anthropic, and the five days in 2023 when the board fired its CEO and took him back. This map is marked real.
26 people, 39 relationships, 2015 to 2024.
average 2.6 connections each, 10% of the possible ties drawn, 4 communities.
People in OpenAI and the split
- Elon Musk, Co-founder and early funder, 2015 to 2018
- Ilya Sutskever, Co-founder, chief scientist, 2015 to 2024
- Sam Altman, Co-founder, chief executive, from 2015
- Greg Brockman, Co-founder, president and chairman, from 2015
- Andrej Karpathy, Founding member, 2015 to 2024
- John Schulman, Co-founder, left for Anthropic in 2024, 2015 to 2024
- Wojciech Zaremba, Co-founder, from 2015
- Helen Toner, Board member, Georgetown CSET, 2021 to 2023-11
- Tasha McCauley, Board member, 2018 to 2023-11
- Adam D'Angelo, Board member, chief executive of Quora, from 2018
- Mira Murati, Chief technology officer, first interim chief executive, 2018 to 2024
- Emmett Shear, Twitch co-founder, second interim chief executive, 2023-11
- Satya Nadella, Chief executive of Microsoft, from 2019
- Bret Taylor, Chair of the board that reinstated him, from 2023-11
- Larry Summers, Joined the new board, from 2023-11
- Jakub Pachocki, Research director, resigned in protest, from 2023-11
- Aleksander Mądry, Resigned in protest, from 2023-11
- Szymon Sidor, Resigned in protest, from 2023-11
- Dario Amodei, Left in 2020, founded Anthropic, from 2016
- Daniela Amodei, Co-founder and president of Anthropic, from 2021
- Tom Brown, Anthropic co-founder, from 2021
- Jared Kaplan, Anthropic co-founder, chief science officer, from 2021
- Sam McCandlish, Anthropic co-founder, chief architect, from 2021
- Chris Olah, Anthropic co-founder, interpretability, from 2021
- Benjamin Mann, Anthropic co-founder, from 2021
- Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, policy, from 2021
Relationships in OpenAI and the split
- Sam Altman and Greg Brockman: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source
- Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source
- Sam Altman and Elon Musk: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, 2015 to 2018) source
- Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source
- Sam Altman and John Schulman: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, 2015 to 2024) source
- Sam Altman and Wojciech Zaremba: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source
- Ilya Sutskever and Andrej Karpathy: founding research team together (business, confirmed, from 2015) source
- Elon Musk -> Sam Altman: left the board, and later sued (conflict, confirmed, from 2018) source
- Andrej Karpathy and Elon Musk: went to Tesla, then came back (business, confirmed, 2017 to 2023) source
- Ilya Sutskever -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Helen Toner -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Tasha McCauley -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Adam D'Angelo -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Greg Brockman -> Sam Altman: resigned as chairman hours later (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Mira Murati -> Sam Altman: took over as interim chief executive (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Emmett Shear -> Mira Murati: replaced her as interim chief executive (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Satya Nadella -> Sam Altman: offered him a Microsoft research division (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Jakub Pachocki -> Sam Altman: resigned alongside him (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Aleksander Mądry -> Sam Altman: resigned alongside him (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Szymon Sidor -> Sam Altman: resigned alongside him (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Mira Murati and Greg Brockman: signed the letter with 745 of 770 staff (social, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Ilya Sutskever and Helen Toner: recanted and signed the letter too (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Emmett Shear -> Sam Altman: handed it back after five days (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source
- Bret Taylor -> Sam Altman: chaired the board that brought him back (business, confirmed, from 2023-11) source
- Bret Taylor and Larry Summers: joined the new board together (business, confirmed, from 2023-11) source
- Bret Taylor and Adam D'Angelo: the only director who stayed on (business, confirmed, from 2023-11) source
- Dario Amodei -> Sam Altman: left over the direction of the work (conflict, confirmed, 2020) source
- Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei: brother and sister (family, confirmed) source
- Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source
- Dario Amodei and Tom Brown: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source
- Dario Amodei and Jared Kaplan: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source
- Dario Amodei and Sam McCandlish: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source
- Dario Amodei and Chris Olah: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source
- Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source
- Dario Amodei and Jack Clark: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source
- Tom Brown -> Sam Altman: left with the same group (other, confirmed, 2021) source
- Chris Olah -> Ilya Sutskever: left the research team (other, reported, 2021) source
- John Schulman -> Dario Amodei: followed them across (business, confirmed, 2024) source
- John Schulman -> Sam Altman: a co-founder walking out (other, confirmed, 2024) source