Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader
Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic after a stint at Tesla. He will be part of the pretraining team, focusing on enhancing the capabilities of the company's Claude models. This move comes as Anthropic continues to attract top talent in the competitive AI landscape.
- ▪Andrej Karpathy announced his new role at Anthropic, where he will work on the pretraining team.
- ▪Karpathy previously co-founded OpenAI and served as director of AI at Tesla.
- ▪Anthropic is in a competitive race for talent against OpenAI and has made several high-profile hires recently.
8 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 1 lean left, 6 centre.
- ▪ OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic as it aims to dominate AI race — The Globe and Mail
- ▪ Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Alum and OpenAI Co-Founder, Joins Anthropic - WSJ — Google News
- ▪ Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead pre-training team — Crypto Briefing
- ▪ Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla (Madison Mills/Axios) — Techmeme
- ▪ OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team — TechCrunch
- ▪ OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic — Axios
- ▪ Karpathy is a founding member of OpenAI and now joining Anthropic. I wonder why — Reddit
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Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, announced on Tuesday that he's joining Anthropic."I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative," Karpathy wrote in a post on X, referring to large language models. "I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D."Anthropic said Karpathy starts this week and will be part of the pretraining team, which helps the company's Claude models acquire their core knowledge and capabilities.
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