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OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic's Pre-training Team
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.
TL;DR
- Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher, has joined Anthropic.
- Karpathy will focus on pre-training large language models (LLMs) and AI-assisted research.
- He previously worked at OpenAI and led AI initiatives at Tesla.
- Anthropic hired Chris Rohlf, a cybersecurity veteran, for its frontier red team.
- Karpathy intends to continue his passion for education and AI assistants in the future.