The Bitter Rivalries Behind the Race to Build Superintelligence

Despite wildly different philosophies, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind's leaders all converged on the same scaling-at-all-costs race to superintelligence.

• Three philosophies, one outcome: Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amadei (Anthropic), and Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) started with opposing worldviews but all ended up racing to scale AI as fast as possible.
• 'Big Blob of Compute': Amadei's unpublished 2017 internal OpenAI memo argued bigger models/more compute beat narrow engineering—Roos calls it possibly 'the most important document... ever in AI research.'

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