… 30 31 The same month, it made a $1.8 billion cloud computing deal with Akamai Technologies . 32 Business structure edit According to Anthropic, its goal is to research AI systems' safety and reliability. 33 The Amodei siblings were among those who left OpenAI due to directional differences. …
… Throughout 2024, roughly half of then-employed AI safety researchers left OpenAI, citing the company's deprioritization of safety goals. …
… 161 162 163 In an internal memo to employees, Pichai called the debacle offensive and unacceptable, promising structural and technical changes. 164 165 166 Several employees in Google's trust and safety team were laid off days later. …
… 67 Anthropic reported that during a safety test involving a fictional scenario, Claude and other frontier LLMs often send a blackmail email to an engineer in order to prevent their replacement. …
… 70 Altman said in 2015 that they were partly motivated by concerns about AI safety and existential risk from artificial general intelligence . …
… Retrieved May 24, 2023 . ^ "OpenAI Hits 900 Million Weekly Users, Raises $110B in Fresh Funding" . Newsweek . February 28, 2026 . Retrieved April 14, 2026 . ^ Levy, Steven September 11, 2023 . "Sundar Pichai on Google;s AI, Microsoft's AI, OpenAI, and ... Did We Mention AI?" . …
… 221 In July 2023, Musk launched the artificial intelligence company xAI , which aims to develop a generative AI program that competes with existing offerings like OpenAI's ChatGPT . Musk obtained funding from investors in SpaceX and Tesla, 222 and xAI hired engineers from Google and OpenAI. …