💡Surprising discovery: The number of people jumping ship from OpenAI to Anthropic is eight times the number jumping ship in reverse order. Would a long short Anthropic/OpenAI strategy be a good one? With Karpathy's arrival, discussions about high-level talent turnover have surged. The top teams driving global technological development can actually offer insights by listing their members. - xAI's founding team essentially all left by the end of March this year. Kyle Kosic (@kylekosic) left for OpenAI. Igor Babuschkin (@ibab) started his own venture capital firm. 💡: Anthropic boasts an 80% employee retention rate within two years, the highest among companies with high-level talent retention. According to SignalFire's talent report, OpenAI engineers are 8 times more likely to jump ship to Anthropic than vice versa, and DeepMind's ratio to Anthropic is even higher at 11:1. 💡On February 2nd, SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock transaction, valuing the company at $1.25 trillion, the largest merger in history, but immediately caused the disintegration of the founding team. In AI In this era of rapid growth, the most irreplaceable asset with compounding returns is people. Beyond mergers and acquisitions and financing news directly related to valuation, the retention and departure of talent also determine the upper limit of a tech giant's growth.