Tech companies and investors have spent the past year organizing against Anthropic, frustrated by CEO Dario Amodei’s warnings about AI risks and by how hard the company plays with customers and rivals, according to The New York Times. Jensen Huang, who resigned as Nvidia’s CEO on Thursday, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella drafted July’s letter defending open-weight AI models over email, and more than 200 companies signed it, including OpenAI and Anthropic investors Amazon and Google. Amodei refused to sign, and his blog post on the letter argued that every AI model “should go through mandatory safety testing.” Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz met with Anthropic cofounder Tom Brown this summer and told him the company’s job-loss predictions were scaring the public.
