Hire
Karpathy joins Anthropic
- Person
- Andrej Karpathy
- Announced
- Prior role
- Co-founder, OpenAI
- New role
- Member of technical staff, Anthropic pre-training team
Why it matters
Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI who previously led AI at Tesla, announced he is joining Anthropic to work on pre-training—the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities. He will build a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research.
The hire is a high-profile talent-war move: Anthropic has recruited one of OpenAI's earliest researchers to its frontier model development effort. Karpathy's work at OpenAI and Tesla was cited repeatedly during the recent Musk v. Altman trial, underscoring his prominence in the field.