Two of the main members of the PayPal mafia are sparring again — this time over artificial intelligence.

Billionaire tech investor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on Monday called Anthropic "one of the good guys" after the AI startup was criticized last week by David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar.

"Anthropic, along with some others (incl Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI) are trying to deploy AI the right way, thoughtfully, safely, and enormously beneficial for society," Hoffman wrote on X . " That's why I am intensely rooting for their success."

Hoffman has served on Microsoft's board since 2017, shortly after selling LinkedIn to the software giant. Microsoft is a key OpenAI investor and partner. Hoffman was

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