Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher and OpenAI co-founder, has announced he is joining rival AI lab Anthropic, where he will work on the pre-training team and help build a new team using Claude to accelerate pretraining research. The hire is seen as a major win for Anthropic in the intense competition for top AI talent. Karpathy, who previously led Tesla's Autopilot AI team and has become a widely followed AI educator, said he is excited to return to research and development at "the frontier of LLMs."
