Anthropic's Mission Statement Is Doing a Lot of Work Lately
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Dario Amodei is reportedly worried that his new hires don't believe in the mission.
According to Axios, citing a source familiar with the matter, the Anthropic CEO has expressed concern that some recent hires at the company are joining for compensation rather than out of any deep commitment to safely building advanced AI. The report landed in the middle of an escalating talent war between Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Thinking Machines Lab, where nine figure pay packages, aggressive poaching, an
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