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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
- Rohlf is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry with more than 20 years of experience
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.