In November 2023, after Sam Altman had been fired, it was reported that OpenAI met secretly with Anthropic and asked Dario to merge Anthropic with OpenAI and then take over as CEO of the new company. And that Anthropic turned them down. I posted about this at the time. But it was never corroborated, and so many angry people said it was obviously false and fake that I eventually deleted the post. Today we got testimony from Ilya Sutskever under oath that this actually did happen.