Why Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wanted OpenAI to stop taking Peter Thiel’s money

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei once urged OpenAI to stop accepting money from billionaire Peter Thiel, calling him “morally worthy of condemnation” over his $1.25 million donation to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The messages were posted on OpenAI’s internal chat months after Amodei joined, and they have resurfaced as Anthropic pitches its Nasdaq IPO to investors. The twist: Thiel’s Founders Fund later invested about $1.25 billion in Anthropic, the AI company Amodei co-founded.