Andrej Karpathy Joined Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, announced he has joined Anthropic. Karpathy stated he is excited to return to research and development at the frontier of large language models, while also planning to continue his work in education. The move marks another shift for Karpathy, who previously served as director of AI at Tesla and briefly returned to OpenAI before founding his own AI education company.

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X XCancel link https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312 : 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. Karpathy https://karpathy.ai/ is, to say the least, a star in the AI research field. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, was director of AI at Tesla reporting directly to Elon Musk from 2017–2022, went back to OpenAI in 2023, and then left again in 2024 to start an AI education company named Eureka Labs https://eurekalabs.ai/ . He coined the term “vibe coding” https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 in February last year.