Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic is not just a famous researcher changing labs. The important part is where he is reportedly going: pre-training, and a team using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. pic.twitter.com/35mu5r22ev— Sensemaker (@sensemaker_ai) May 19, 2026
Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.
Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team | TechCrunch
Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.
Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision | TechCrunch
Tesla has hired deep learning and computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy in a key Autopilot role. Karpathy most recently held a role as a researcher at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence nonprofit backed by Elon Musk. He has an extensive background in AI-related fields, having completed a PhD at Stanford University in computer vision.
Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) May 19, 2026
Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X
Today, roughly the same amount of basic research is done in industry as in academia. It’s time our doctoral training reflected that. @NSF is launching a first-of-its-kind 4-year PhD program at more than 30 universities. Students will spend a year+ embedded with industry… pic.twitter.com/8BzVoRRkBj— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 29, 2026
Arthur Turrell on Twitter / X
Today @Google, we published work led by @m_codreanu on AI in Science, drawing on 15 million Gemini interactions, 2,600 specialised AI models & a 600-scientist survey. What did we find about how AI is changing science? Read on... pic.twitter.com/VqO2xxcm02— Arthur Turrell (@arthurturrell) September 15, 2026
KPMG integrates Claude across its core business and workforce of more than 276,000 in strategic alliance
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