OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Inside the Biggest Rivalry in Tech:
A new world has arrived. Dario Amodei and Sam Altman cannot stop fighting over it.
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Amodei’s Scaling Theory Shaped OpenAI’s Early AI ResearchA 26-page internal paper from 2017 explained Amodei’s ideas about intelligence and safe AI development.
Key FactsOct 1, 2026 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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- In 2016, Amodei left Google to join OpenAI, then a fledgling nonprofit AI research laboratory.
- In 2017, he wrote a 26-page internal essay about concentrated computing power, intelligence, and safe AI development.
- Its central thesis held that machine intelligence depended primarily on scale, with larger systems becoming more capable.
- His scaling theory steered OpenAI toward large language models as a possible route to AGI, or human-level general intelligence.
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