OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

Renowned researcher Andrej Karpathy announced on social media on Tuesday that he has joined Anthropic, in a major talent win for the artificial intelligence (AI) giant.

Karpathy, a major figure in modern deep learning, previously cofounded OpenAI and served as the director of AI at Tesla, where he led the Autopilot computer vision team.



In a personal update sharing the news, Karpathy said, "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."

He had recently been focusing on his AI education startup Eureka Labs.