The Frontier Circular · №2
A palace gazette of trivial movements, recorded with the gravity they deserve.
- Mr. Karpathy attended a stand-up at Anthropic’s San Francisco office. He brought a small moving box. The box was, by all accounts, the same one.
- Mr. Altman was Not Present at the stand-up. He was, per his brother’s podcast, “not worried” about it.
- Ms. Murati was, at filing, still raising. The round is structured as equity. The equity is, by all reports, in her.
- Mr. Schulman was reported to be, at filing, still at Thinking Machines. Compute! is unable to confirm this beyond the close of business.
- Mr. Nordeen, late of xAI, was observed walking past a Tesla showroom without stopping.
- Mr. Zuckerberg opened a new Slack workspace. Seven people from OpenAI were already in it.
- The Anthropic comms team was, as ever, busy.