📈Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic's Claude Pre-Training Team
TL;DR
OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pre-training team under lead Nick Joseph. He is helping start a group that uses Claude itself to speed up pre-training research.
OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pre-training team under lead Nick Joseph. He is helping start a group that uses Claude itself to speed up pre-training research.

Key Points
Karpathy started the week of May 19 under pre-training lead Nick Joseph
New team uses Claude to accelerate Anthropic's own pre-training research
He was an OpenAI founding member and led Tesla Autopilot's vision team
Leaves his AI education startup Eureka Labs to take the role
Why It Matters
Frontier labs compete for a tiny pool of researchers who can move pre-training, so landing Karpathy is a talent signal as loud as any funding round.
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Why does this matter?
Frontier labs compete for a tiny pool of researchers who can move pre-training, so landing Karpathy is a talent signal as loud as any funding round.
What happened?
OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pre-training team under lead Nick Joseph. He is helping start a group that uses Claude itself to speed up pre-training research.
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