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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder, has joined Anthropic to lead work on accelerating Claude's pre-training. The hire represents a significant addition to Anthropic's leadership from a competing AI lab.

  • Karpathy is OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director
  • Role focuses on accelerating Claude pre-training
  • Announcement made May 20, 2026
  • Karpathy previously published observations on LLM coding pitfalls and model assumption errors