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Andrej Karpathy's move to Anthropic is a major win for the AI giant in the talent wars
Andrej Karpathy, the OpenAI founding member who was formerly Tesla's AI boss, announced on Tuesday that he had joined Anthropic.
TL;DR
- Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI founding member and former Tesla AI director, has joined Anthropic.
- Karpathy will work on Anthropic's pretraining team, responsible for large-scale testing of Claude.
- This hiring is a major development for Anthropic in the competitive AI talent market.
- Karpathy previously rejoined OpenAI in 2023 after leaving for Tesla, and later founded Eureka Labs.
- He is known for coining the term "vibe coding" and for his influential social media posts on AI.
- Anthropic's valuation has surpassed OpenAI's on secondary markets, amid intensified rivalry between the two AI labs.