Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out his rationale on a recent podcast for why he will not play the competing offer game despite Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's attempts to poach AI talent. While Meta poaches talent from Apple, OpenAI and Google, AI startup Anthropic is refusing to play the game by matching competing offers. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explained his reasoning on an episode of the "Big Technology Podcast," released earlier this week. Some Anthropic staff "wouldn't even talk" to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to Amodei. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.