Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader | The BriefWire
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader
Published on 5/19/2026, 4:46:07 PM
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Andrej Karpathy Director of AI Tesla a keynote speaker at the Train AI conference at Pier 27 in San Francisco, Ca.
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May 10, 2018. Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, announced on Tuesday that he's joining Anthropic.
"I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative," Karpathy wrote in a post on X, referring to large language models.
"I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D." Anthropic said Karpathy starts this week and will be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research, which helps the company's models acquire their core knowledge and capabilities.
Quick context: Andrej Karpathy Director of AI Tesla a keynote speaker at the Train AI conference at Pier 27 in San Francisco, Ca.
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