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37 People Just Left OpenAI & Anthropic to Build Startups

37 People Just Left OpenAI & Anthropic to Build Startups

37 AI insiders left OpenAI & Anthropic this year.

Now they're building their own companies. Some are working on personal AI.

Others are building AI research labs, autonomous agents, safety systems, business automation tools, and even a new kind of personal computer.

These aren't random founders either. Many spent years working inside the companies building frontier AI.

Now they're taking what they learned and betting on their own ideas. And we're only halfway through 2026.

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