OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic as it aims to dominate AI race
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic to enhance its capabilities in the competitive AI landscape. He will be part of the pretraining team, focusing on large-scale training for the company's AI models. Karpathy previously worked at Tesla and has expressed a continued interest in education technology.
- ▪Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic as part of its pretraining team.
- ▪He previously worked at Tesla and was a founding member of OpenAI.
- ▪Karpathy aims to contribute to the development of sophisticated AI models at Anthropic.
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- ▪ Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Alum and OpenAI Co-Founder, Joins Anthropic - WSJ — Google News
- ▪ Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader — CNBC — Top
- ▪ 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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Open this photo in gallery:Anthropic's Head of Claude Code Boris Cherney at a developer conference in San Francisco on May 6. Anthropic has been grappling with strong competition from rival frontier model developers such as OpenAI.Don Feria/The Associated PressShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountAndrej Karpathy, a former Tesla TSLA-T AI executive and one of OpenAI’s founding members, has joined Anthropic, he said on Tuesday, strengthening the Claude maker as it looks to dominate the AI race.“I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative.
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