“Anthropic has quietly removed its commitment to delay deployment of frontier models if their safety profile is unclear.”
Anthropic was founded by people who left OpenAI because they thought OpenAI’s safety culture had collapsed. Five years later, Anthropic is making the same compromises with the same justifications. The competitive pressure from China, the funding round, the customer commitments. The pledge that distinguished them from OpenAI is gone, the next pledge will follow, and in three years the company will be operationally indistinguishable from the one its founders fled.