Odaily News People familiar with the matter revealed that OpenAI’s board of directors approached Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of its competitor Anthropic, a large language model developer, about the possibility of a merger between the two companies. OpenAIs board of directors fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday as part of the companys efforts to persuade Amodei to succeed Altman as CEO. Its unclear whether the merger proposal sparked serious discussion. Because of his position at Anthropic, Amodei quickly turned down the offer to become OpenAI CEO. (The Information)