According to media reports citing two people familiar with the matter, OpenAI’s board of directors is in contact with the CEO of rival Anthropic to discuss the content ofThe first is to let him take over the position of Sam Altman, the former CEO of OpenAI, and the second is to initially explore the merger of two artificial intelligence startups.

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei has shown little interest in either proposal, according to people familiar with the matter.

It is said that Amodei because of his position at Anthropic,He quickly rejected the offer to also serve as OpenAI CEO. There are currently no serious discussions about a merger between the two companies.

Anthropic was founded 2 years ago and has become OpenAI's biggest competitor in a short period of time. Its chatbot product Claude is competing fiercely with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Both parties are seeking better researchers and winning customers. Currently, Anthropic has received investment from Google and Amazon.

As the co-founder of Anthropic, Amodei was also an executive at OpenAI until 2020.However, he and Ultraman parted ways due to differences over how to ensure the safe development and governance of artificial intelligence.

It is worth mentioning that disagreements about "artificial intelligence safety" seem to be a factor behind the conflict between the OpenAI board of directors and Ultraman. Musk said two days ago that the OpenAI board of directors has an obligation to disclose the reasons for dismissing Altman because it may have a strong correlation with the artificial intelligence model.

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Last Friday, the OpenAI board of directors dismissed Altman without warning. Subsequently, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman also chose to resign to join Altman.

As soon as the incident came out, investors including Microsoft put pressure on the OpenAI board of directors last weekend, demanding that Altman and others return to the company. Altman also said that the requirement for return is the collective resignation of the board of directors.

But the board didn't do that. As a result of OpenAI's internal negotiations, the board of directors invited Emmett Shear, the former CEO of overseas live broadcast platform Twitch, to serve as interim CEO, and the latter accepted.

As soon as this news came out, earlier on Monday, Microsoft President Satya Nadella announced that Altman and Brockman would lead the team to join Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.

Subsequently, more than 700 OpenAI employees signed a joint letter threatening to resign, demanding that the company's board of directors resign and restore Altman and Brockman's positions, otherwise they will turn around and join Microsoft.

This "big drama" has experienced reversal and reversal, but the current result is that the outside world's prospects for OpenAI have taken a sharp turn.

Existing reports suggest that OpenAI's customers are looking for an exit, suggesting the company could be facing significant business losses that could hit the startup hard. It is reported that more than 100 OpenAI customers contacted OpenAI competitor Anthropic over the weekend. Cohere, another rival startup to Google Cloud and OpenAI, has also been contacted, people familiar with the matter said.