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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
OpenAI's co-founder Andrej Karpathy just joined Anthropic's pre-training team. That's a major talent shift in the model wars.
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Why it matters
A founding-era OpenAI researcher moving to Anthropic signals competitive pressure on model development and suggests Anthropic is doubling down on foundational capabilities. This is one of the highest-profile poaches between the two labs.
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5 to knowAndrej Karpathy (OpenAI co-founder) joins Anthropic
Joining Anthropic's pre-training team
Previously: co-founder and VP of Research at OpenAI
Previously: led Tesla AI/Autopilot efforts
Published May 19, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led computer vision and AI at Tesla.