Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, rejected OpenAI's board of directors' merger proposal and an offer to take over for fired CEO Sam Altman. Anthropic, backed by FTX and valued at $500 million, declined the deal, because of concerns about its implications. FTX's bankruptcy trustee has yet to sell its Anthropic stake. The U.S. DOJ claim the $500 million investment in Anthropic in 2022 originated from customer funds.
