Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic for frontier LLM research
former openai and tesla ai lead andrej karpathy joins anthropic to return to frontier llm research, departing his education startup eureka labs.
andrej karpathy is joining anthropic to focus on frontier research and development of large language models. he leaves his role as founder of eureka labs, an ai-enabled education platform, though he intends to return to the education sector later. karpathy expressed enthusiasm for the next few years of llm advancement, specifically noting his recent change of heart regarding the capabilities of agentic ai for coding. this hiring represents a strategic win for anthropic and a notable loss for openai, where karpathy was a core early team member and most recently served until early 2024.