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.
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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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