Altman and OpenAI are now in damage control mode after their decision last week to strike deal with the Pentagon for access to its AI models after their rival Anthropic refused to agree to the government's terms. It's become a fast-moving story filled with contract negotiations, optics management, and a tipping of the scales in the chatbot wars as the public has watched it all unfold, voting with their downloads and wallets.
Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak are both listed as members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team on an earlier version of its website. Both have been working at Meta for a few weeks, according to sources familiar with the matter. Gibson is a former OpenAI engineer who specializes in supercomputers used for training AI models and who worked on the first ChatGPT model.
But when it comes to its own tech being copied, Google has no problem pointing fingers. This week, the company accused "commercially motivated" actors of trying to clone its Gemini AI. In a Thursday report, Google complained it had become under "distillation attacks," with agents querying Gemini up to 100,000 times to "extract" the underlying model - the convoluted AI industry equivalent of copying somebody's homework, basically.
