Andrej Karpathy , a former Tesla AI executive and one of OpenAI 's founding members, has joined Anthropic , the Claude maker, he announced on Tuesday.
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Andrej Karpathy , a former Tesla AI executive and one of OpenAI 's founding members, has joined Anthropic , the Claude maker, he announced on Tuesday.
Tesla's former head of artificial intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, is joining Anthropic - while his old boss, Elon Musk, ties SpaceX more tightly to the AI startup. Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, said he's joining Anthropic. Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI who later went to work for Tesla Inc., has joined Anthropic PBC to do research and development focused on helping train new artificial intelligence models.
Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.
MarketWatch reported the story as "Anthropic's latest hire led AI at Tesla, worked at OpenAI and received high praise from Elon Musk." The Independent reported the story as "OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic." New York Post reported the story as "Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy as its momentum continues to surge."
22 sources have covered this story, including New York Post, MarketWatch, The Independent and CNBC and 18 other outlets. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 1 day ago.
Source accounts have not fully aligned on every figure tied to this story (different reports cite 2022, 61.5, 19); the published L1FE summary holds those specifics open until more sources converge.
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Anthropic's latest hire led AI at Tesla, worked at OpenAI and received high praise from Elon Musk
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader
OpenAI Founding Member Andrej Karpathy Takes Role at Anthropic
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
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