Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead Claude pre-training research team

Summary

Andrej Karpathy — OpenAI co-founder, former Tesla AI lead, and one of the most-followed practitioner voices in deep learning — has joined Anthropic, where he will start a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. He reports to pre-training lead Nick Joseph. Karpathy framed the move as a return to frontier R&D after stints at Tesla, a second OpenAI tour, and his own Eureka Labs education startup; he had been an Anthropic critic of the "Software 3.0" thesis but has now publ