Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to return to R&D

Andrej Karpathy announced on X that he’s joined Anthropic, calling the next few years at the LLM frontier “especially formative.” The news sparked a wave of welcomes as the AI community weighed the talent shift.

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TL;DR

  • Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic, citing the next few years of frontier LLMs as “especially formative”
  • Returning to R&D: Karpathy said he is excited to get back to research and development work
  • Education plans: Continued passion for education, with intent to resume that work “in time”

In a post on X, Andrej Karpathy stated that he has "joined Anthropic," adding that the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be "especially formative." He also said he is excited to "get back to R&D" and that he remains passionate about education, with plans to resume that work "in time."

The update drew a fast stream of replies from Anthropic employees and others in the AI community. Boris Cherny welcomed Karpathy to the team, while Alex Albert wrote, "Welcome to the team!" Several commenters echoed that tone, and others responded with jokes about the move

Source: X

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