Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy as its momentum continues to surge
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic, enhancing the company's growth in the AI sector. He will focus on pre-training research for Anthropic's AI model, Claude. This move follows his previous role at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team for Autopilot.
- ▪Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic as part of its pre-training team.
- ▪He previously worked at Tesla, leading the computer vision team for Autopilot.
- ▪Anthropic has gained popularity with its Claude tools and new Mythos model.
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Business Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy as its momentum continues to surge By Marc Vartabedian Published May 19, 2026, 3:01 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla executive, has joined Anthropic – adding to the artificial intelligence giant’s surging momentum. Karpathy — considered to be one of the world’s top AI researchers — is working on the pre-training team which is responsible for “the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities,” the company said.
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