Anthropic Grabs Andrej Karpathy for Claude AI Race

Anthropic hired Andrej Karpathy for pre-training, placing an OpenAI co-founder at the core of future Claude model development.

Key takeaways

• Two OpenAI stints, a Tesla AI leadership role, and one of AI’s loudest technical megaphones are now moving inside Anthropic.
• Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training group under Nick Joseph
• Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded OpenAI and later led AI work at Tesla, has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training, according to Tec...
• Karpathy announced the move Tuesday on X.

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