Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to work on frontier LLMs
The former OpenAI and Tesla researcher is moving into Claude's pretraining orbit and says he plans to resume his AI education work later.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Digg / Aligned News AI
Why it matters
Frontier AI hiring is increasingly a product signal. Karpathy's move suggests Anthropic is investing in core model work, not only Claude distribution, as competition among OpenAI alumni-led labs tightens.
Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on large language models at the research frontier, according to a Digg/Aligned News AI cluster that surfaced the move and his Wikipedia entry.…