A founding member of OpenAI has joined Anthropic to boost Claude's research capabilities
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic to enhance its pre-training team. His expertise is expected to significantly contribute to the development of Claude, Anthropic's AI model. This move reflects the competitive landscape for AI talent as companies vie for top researchers.
- ▪Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pre-training team.
- ▪He previously worked at OpenAI and Tesla, and has a strong background in AI research.
- ▪The competition for AI talent has intensified, with companies like Meta offering substantial incentives to attract researchers.
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Pro A founding member of OpenAI has joined Anthropic to boost Claude's research capabilities News By Rahim Amir published 22 May 2026 Claude's pretraining team gets a massive reputational boost When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Anthropic) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, bolstering its Anthropic's pre-training teamThe move could be seen as a vote of confidence as Anthropic reportedly prepares for a sub-trillion-dollar IPOTop talent in the AI research industry is being aggressively poached, even as AI spend…
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