Who Is Andrej Karpathy? E OpenAI Founder, Former Tesla AI Chief Joins Anthropic

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• Who Is Andrej Karpathy?
• E OpenAI Founder, Tesla AI Chief Joins Anthropic Published By, Last Updated: May 19, 2026, 22:42 IST Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla AI director, has joined Anthropic pretraining team, underscoring intensifying competition for top AI talent among major labs.
• Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla AI director.
• (Image: Fortune) Renowned artificial intelligence researcher Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former AI director at Tesla, has joined Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI models, marking a major talent win in the intensifying competition among leading AI firms.
• Karpathy announced the move in a post on X, saying he was excited to return to research and development at a time when large language models (LLMs) are evolving rapidly.