Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic's Pre-Training Team
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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, announces he is joining Anthropic on May 19, 2026 to work on the pre-training team. Coverage frames it as a major hire aimed at accelerating pre-training research using Claude itself.
The REAL Reason Andrej Karpathy Joined Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy announced on May 19, 2026 that he is joining Anthropic’s pre‑training team to use Claude in a recursive self‑improvement loop, a move he says is driven by the technical allure of the challenge rather than status or pay, and that Anthropic aims to compress the research cycle for future Claude models in line with Jack Clark’s 60% prediction of no‑human AI R&D by 2028.
This is absolutely CRAZY
Andrej Karpathy's surprise announcement at Google I/O that he is joining Anthropic is framed as a major rebuke to OpenAI and Sam Altman, validating Anthropic's dire predictions about AI causing a white-collar bloodbath and sentient danger, and signaling a talent consolidation among only OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI.