A founding member of OpenAI has joined Anthropic to boost Claude's research capabilities

Date:
Fri, 22 May 2026 17:25:00 +0000

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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy is now part of Anthropic's AI team and will helm a team that handles pre-training research.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Andrej Karpathy joins
Anthropic, bolstering its Anthropic's pre-training team The move could be
seen as a vote of confidence as Anthropic reportedly prepares for a sub-trillion-dollar IPO Top talent in the AI research industry is being aggressively poached, even as AI spend remains a focus and key concern for financial markets OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has found a new home at Anthropic, joining the companys pre-training team.

The storied AI researcher, who has previously worked as Teslas AI lead, also started an AI education company (Eureka Labs) and has been responsible for
the coining of the term vibe coding, which has caught on as the de facto term for allowing AI to do most of the heavy lifting while coding an application, often based on prompts alone. What makes Karpathy one of the most
sought-after names in the business is possibly his versatility: he has not only worked at OpenAI and Tesla, but also interned at Google s DeepMind team while researching neural networks as part of his PhD at Stanford. Latest Videos From You may like Anthropic drops its defining safety pledge Anthropic reveals Claude Managed Agents, promises to make agent building '10x faster' Anthropic rolls out a host of new AI agents Andrej Karpathy to head his own team in Anthropic's pretraining division In a post on X announcing the move, Karpathy stated: Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

Nick Joseph, who has previously worked on OpenAIs safety team and is
currently head of its pretraining team, took to X to congratulate him on the move: Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I
cant think of anyone better suited to do it looking forward to what we build together! An increasingly competitive market for AI researchers Karpathys
move comes even as competition to hire the best AI talent has fiercely increased over the past few months. Meta is reportedly offering
billion-dollar buyouts to companies to secure researchers for its teams, even as researchers flock to other organizations for a variety of reasons, including ethics, access to compute, and perceived leadership.

This, as Anthropics Claude has made several breakthroughs in recent months, catching up to and often exceeding performance metrics versus rival offerings from labs such as Google and OpenAI. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me
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Its more focused offerings, such as the security-centric Mythos and integrations, continue to pave the way forward to the companys growing
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