Anthropic Brings on OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy
Anthropic has picked up Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s founders and ex-Tesla AI lead, as it looks to boost its research team amid tough competition for AI talent. The Claude maker is adding a high-profile technical hire as rival labs continue hiring sprees. Karpathy is set to join Anthropic’s pre-training team, the same unit that handles the big compute-intensive training runs behind Claude’s core features, before the model gets fine-tuned for users. TechCrunch said he’ll report to Nick Joseph and plans to start a team focused on using Claude to help speed up pre-training research.