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new: Anthropic wants to get into robotics, has discussed buying @physical_int
at Anthropic, @janleike is leading robotics-related research. for fans of ancient history, Jan previously worked at OpenAI and was a supporter of Ilya Sutskever during Sutskever's brief ouster of Sam Altman
new: Anthropic wants to get into robotics, has discussed buying @physical_int
This makes sense. Fundamentally I was a bit skeptical of a merger happening. And this would have been before their latest raise, so would have been far cheaper than right now.
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumors have some seed of truth to them. The firms had early M&A talks this spring but didn’t end up going anywhere. More recently, Jan Leike, Anthropic’s ex-head of alignment, has been leading its robotics efforts: https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/anthropics-robot-ambition-nvidia-ramps-vera-rubin