AI BriefingKarpathy joins Anthropic
Key point
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pretraining team.
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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former head of Tesla's autonomous driving AI, has joined Anthropic's pretraining team.
Karpathy will build a new team under Nick Josef aimed at accelerating pretraining research using Claude. This is interpreted as a form of recursive self-improvement, where Claude improves its own training process.
Key figures who moved from OpenAI to Anthropic:
- Jan Leike (May 2024)
- John Schulman, co-founder (August 2024)
- Andrej Karpathy, co-founder (May 2026)
Karpathy has earned high praise from the developer community through his neural network lectures on YouTube, and has built a unique standing in the AI field through co-founding OpenAI and developing Tesla's autonomous driving system.
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