Anthropic has hired Andrej Karpathy, the artificial intelligence (AI) researcher who co-founded OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and later led Tesla’s (TSLA) self-driving programs. Karpathy has spent his career at the heart of some of the most important AI and autonomous vehicle projects of the past decade. He is now set to bring that depth of experience to Anthropic’s pretraining division.
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Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Pretraining Research
Karpathy revealed on Tuesday, May 19, that he is joining Anthropic, with the AI company confirming he starts this week. Working under team lead Nick Joseph, Karpathy will be building a team focused on using Claude AI models to speed up pretraining research.
Pretraining is a large-scale training process that gives AI models their core knowledge and capabilities. It is also one of the most compute-heavy and expensive stages of building an advanced model.
Karpathy shared the update on X, saying he believes the next few years at the frontier of large language models (LLMs) will be critical and that he is eager to return to research and development.
“I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time,” Karpathy added.
Notably, the latest hire adds to a recent string of senior additions at Anthropic. Earlier this month, the AI company also brought on Ross Nordeen, a founding member of xAI, the firm behind Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot and former Tesla employee.
Karpathy’s Move From OpenAI and Tesla to Anthropic
Karpathy was a co-founder of OpenAI, where he worked on deep learning and computer vision before leaving in 2017 to join Tesla. At Tesla, he led the Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot car programs, two of the company’s most ambitious engineering efforts, before exiting in 2022.
His move to Anthropic comes as the firm finds itself in a heated competition for top AI talent against its chief rival, OpenAI. Anthropic is also set to surpass OpenAI’s private market valuation following its latest proposed funding round, making the timing of this hire notable.
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