Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Pre-Training Research Team
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Andrej Karpathy, AI researcher and OpenAI co-founder, announced he has joined Anthropic's pre-training team under Nick Joseph, leading a new team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. Karpathy stated the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative.
Why it matters
One of the field's most prominent researchers moving to Anthropic signals intensifying competition in frontier pre-training
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High-profile talent signal: Karpathy choosing Anthropic over former home OpenAI to work on frontier pre-training