Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent
THE SO WHAT
Top labs are now openly wrestling with mission vs. money as comp packages spike and researchers hop between Anthropic, OpenAI, and peers. If you're not a frontier lab, your edge is clarity—codify your mission and culture explicitly, because you will lose pure cash auctions.
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