people · May 21, 2026
Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic Pre-Training Team Following High-Profile AI Talent Moves
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Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on its pre-training team in the week of May 19, 2026. Karpathy previously served as founding member at OpenAI and AI lead at Tesla before teaching neural networks via widely viewed YouTube lectures. The hire follows Jan Leike and John Schulman moving from OpenAI to Anthropic, forming a pattern of top research talent consolidation. Anthropic simultaneously announced the KPMG alliance integrating Claude for its 276,000 global employees.
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