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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
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Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic.
Key facts
- Since leaving Tesla in 2022, Karpathy has become one of AI's most influential public educators, building a massive following through technical explainers and educational content on YouTube and X
- Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic
- Karpathy is a rare AI figure with credibility across research, industry and education
- The AI race is often framed around massive funding rounds and scarce computing power
Summary
The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent, and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry's most respected technical minds. Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic. Karpathy will help launch a new team focused on using Claude itself to accelerate pretraining research, an increasingly important frontier as AI companies race to automate parts of AI development. " the reporter thinks the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative.