The recent news that one of OpenAI’s co-founders, John Schulman, left the company to join its main rival, Anthropic, sheds light on the age-old controversy of whether it’s alright, or just plain salty, to leave your company for a direct competitor.
Schulman is one of numerous founders of OpenAI, and its famous Generative AI bot ChatGPT, to have left the company, in a string of departures.