Andrej Karpathy, a renowned AI researcher and founding member of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic. Karpathy, who previously led computer vision and AI at Tesla, announced the move in a personal update on X.
He has joined Anthropic's pre-training team, where he will lead a new group focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research. Karpathy stated that he is excited to return to research and development, noting that the next few years at the frontier of large language models will be especially formative.
The move is viewed as a significant talent coup for the maker of Claude as it races to stay at the frontier of large language model development. Karpathy is regarded as one of the most influential voices and recognized AI researchers in the world.