Anthropic · OpenAI · Tesla · Andrej Karpathy · Claude · Dario Amodei · Crypto Briefing
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to double down on LLM research
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Karpathy said he believes the coming years will be a defining period for frontier AI systems.
Key facts
- Anthropic was co-founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei
- Apart from his roles at OpenAI and Tesla, Andrej Karpathy is also known for coining the term “vibe coding” in early 2025
- By 2025, funding rounds had made it one of the most capitalized private AI firms globally
- OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, and xAI (Elon Musk’s AI venture) are all scaling their teams and compute infrastructure
Summary
Andrej Karpathy, a computer scientist and AI researcher best known as the co-founder of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla, announced today that he has joined Anthropic, the AI safety-focused company behind the Claude family of large language models. Karpathy described the coming years at the frontier of LLMs as “especially formative” and said he was eager to return to research and development. “The reporter thinks the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. Karpathy previously served as senior director of AI at Tesla, where he led the Autopilot computer vision team, and before that held a research role at OpenAI during its early years.