Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic, Deals Blow to OpenAI in Battle for AI Talent
Renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has defected from OpenAI to Anthropic, a significant coup for the latter in the ongoing war for top talent in the AI research community. This move is expected to bolster Anthropic's position in the development of large language models, a crucial area of research with far-reaching implications for various industries.
Andrej Karpathy, one of the biggest names in AI, is joining Anthropic. The former OpenAI core team member and Tesla Autopilot architect says he wants to get back into R&D, calling the next few years at the frontier of LLMs "especially formative." That he chose Anthropic over a return to OpenAI is a clear loss for his former employer. The article Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy picks Anthropic over former home OpenAI to get back into frontier LLM research appeared first on The Decoder.