Michael Burry has accused the chiefs of OpenAI and Anthropic of using increasingly stark warnings about artificial intelligence to protect their market position and shape huge future stock listings, just as rivals gain ground and the industry's biggest potential IPOs come into view.
The investor, whose bet against the US housing market before the 2008 financial crisis was chronicled in The Big Short, called the push to slow frontier AI development 'self-serving' in a post on X on Monday.