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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader
Andrej Karpathy just joined Anthropic. That's an OpenAI co-founder + Tesla's AI leader landing at Claude's company.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
A major AI talent acquisition signals Anthropic's shift in research direction and represents a significant poach from both OpenAI and Tesla. This hire carries strategic weight for reasoning, scaling, and agent capabilities.
The key facts
5 to knowAndrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
Karpathy is OpenAI co-founder
Karpathy was Tesla's former AI/Autopilot lead
Published May 19, 2026
Hire sourced from two major AI powerhouses (OpenAI + Tesla)
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CNBC Technologycnbc.com
Publisher excerpt: Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, said he's joining Anthropic.