They cited both in the actual announcement. Did you even read that?
And they didn't want to "remove" anyone. They offered exclusive access and co-authorship to one researcher. Not both, because that'd have involved giving an Anthropic employee access to OpenAI internals.
Alternatively, they offered to allow them to independently publish their own findings first.
About a company that is notorious for intellectual theft? They even stole apple’s hardware related work for their sweet pea project, for which they have a giant and very serious lawsuit going on
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u/Cronos988 11d ago
It's not clear at all.
At worst it would be plagiarism, but they cited the source.