ANTHROPIC
The tug-of-war we all saw coming
Anthropic has hired Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded OpenAI and later led AI work at Tesla.
Karpathy said he is excited to return to research and development, adding that the next few years for large language models will be especially important.
At Anthropic, he will help build a team focused on using Claude to speed up pretraining research.
This is the stage where AI models learn their core knowledge and skills.
The move adds another major name to Anthropic’s team as competition with OpenAI continues to grow.
The company has also recently hired Ross Nordeen, a founding member of xAI and former Tesla employee.
Here’s what you should know:
Karpathy is joining Anthropic to work on Claude and pretraining research.
He previously co-founded OpenAI and led Tesla’s Autopilot computer vision team.
The hire comes as Anthropic and OpenAI compete for top AI talent.
Not your average tech hire
Karpathy has worked across some of the biggest names in AI.
He helped start OpenAI, joined Tesla in 2017 to lead computer vision work for Autopilot, left in 2022, briefly returned to OpenAI, and later launched AI education startup Eureka Labs.
His name also came up during the recent Musk v. Altman trial, where Elon Musk once described him as one of the world’s top computer vision experts.
Does this mean... war?
Can an AI company hire me for millions, please? - MV