OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-tuning team
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Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic.
Key facts
He led Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot programs before leaving in 2022
Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic
While at OpenAI, Karpathy focused on deep learning and computer vision until he departed in 2017 to join Tesla
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Summary
“I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. Karpathy started this week at Anthropic, where he is working on pre-training under team lead Nick Joseph. An Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch that Karpathy will start a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. Karpathy is one of the few researchers who can bridge the gap between LLM theory and large-scale training practice.