OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI executive Karpathy joins Anthropic
Karpathy will build a team using Claude to speed pretraining research as Anthropic competes more aggressively with OpenAI for top AI talent.
- On Tuesday, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy announced he joined Anthropic, strengthening the Claude maker as it competes with OpenAI in the intensifying AI race.
- Karpathy helped launch OpenAI as a founding research scientist before leading computer vision for Tesla Autopilot, then left in 2022 and started the AI-centered education startup Eureka Labs.
- Reporting to pretraining lead Nick Joseph, Karpathy will build a team using Claude to accelerate pretraining research, which involves large-scale training runs providing models core knowledge and capabilities.
- Tapping Karpathy signals Anthropic's commitment to AI-assisted development over pure compute power as it intensifies rivalry with OpenAI. "I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative," Karpathy wrote.
- Separately, Anthropic hired cybersecurity veteran Chris Rohlf to join its frontier red team, which stress-tests advanced models. Rohlf previously worked at Meta and Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
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Andrej Karpathy, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has moved to its biggest competitor, Anthropic. He announced his new job to the world via a post on X.
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OpenAI co-founder Karpathy joins Anthropic pre-training team
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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy to lead Claude pre-training research
Anthropic scored a major hire today. Former Tesla senior director and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy is joining the organization as a member of the company’s pre-training team. Karpathy posted on X (formerly Twitter) this Tuesday and said, “Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply pa…
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