{"id":728422,"date":"2026-05-20T04:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openai-co-founder-karpathy-joins-anthropic-pre-training-team\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:15:16","slug":"openai-co-founder-karpathy-joins-anthropic-pre-training-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openai-co-founder-karpathy-joins-anthropic-pre-training-team\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI co-founder Karpathy joins Anthropic pre-training team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a328448f22fc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a328448f22fc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openai-co-founder-karpathy-joins-anthropic-pre-training-team\/#TLDR\" >TL;DR<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p><em><\/p>\n<div class=\"postContent-tldr\">\n<h4 class=\"postContent-offsetTitle\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"TLDR\"><\/span>TL;DR<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI\u2019s original 11 co-founders, has joined Anthropic\u2019s pre-training team. He will build a new group that uses Claude itself to accelerate the most expensive phase of frontier model development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/karpathy\/status\/2056753169888334312?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced on Monday<\/a> that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at the frontier of large language model development.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1602121\" style=\"width: 878px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1602121\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1602121\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-20-at-02.16.28.avif\" alt=\"andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic\" width=\"868\" height=\"319\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1602121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Andrej Karpathy X update, source: X<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Karpathy is joining\u00a0Anthropic\u2019s\u00a0pre-training team, led by Nick Joseph, where he will build a brand-new group focused on a strikingly recursive goal: using Claude itself to accelerate pre-training research. Pre-training, the massive compute-intensive phase that gives a frontier model its core knowledge and capabilities, is the single most expensive part of building systems like Claude. Finding ways to make that process faster and more efficient could reshape the economics of the entire AI industry.<\/p>\n<p>In an X post that racked up 13.6 million views, Karpathy wrote that he believes \u201cthe next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative.\u201d He added that he remains \u201cdeeply passionate about education\u201d and plans to resume that work in time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper channel-cta\">\n<div class=\"ica-text\">\n<p class=\"ica-text__title\">TNW City Coworking space &#8211; Where your best work h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens<\/p>\n<p>A workspace designed for growth, collaboration, and endless networking opportunities in the heart of tech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The hire caps a career arc that has touched nearly every major inflection point in modern AI. Karpathy earned his PhD at Stanford under Fei-Fei Li, the computer scientist behind ImageNet, focusing on deep learning and computer vision. He was among the 11 people who\u00a0co-founded OpenAI\u00a0in 2015, where he worked on deep learning research before departing in 2017 to join Tesla as its director of AI.<\/p>\n<p>At Tesla, Karpathy led the computer vision teams behind Full Self-Driving and Autopilot, the programmes that underpin the electric carmaker\u2019s ambitions for autonomous vehicles. He left in July 2022, returned to OpenAI for roughly a year, then departed again in 2024 to found Eureka Labs, a startup applying\u00a0AI assistants to education. Eureka Labs\u2019 work is now paused while Karpathy throws his weight behind Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is notable. Anthropic has emerged as a magnet for top-tier technical talent at a moment when its chief rival, OpenAI, has\u00a0experienced a string of high-profile departures. Over the past two years, OpenAI has lost more than a dozen senior executives and researchers, including CTO Mira Murati, reinforcement learning pioneer John Schulman, and, most recently, three executives who left on a single day in April 2026.<\/p>\n<p>For Anthropic, landing Karpathy signals that the company can attract talent of the highest calibre as it scales both its research and its commercial operations. The firm, led by CEO Dario Amodei, has drawn investor interest at a valuation of roughly $800 billion and is reportedly exploring an IPO that could come as early as late 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Karpathy\u2019s new role also underscores a broader trend in frontier AI: the use of existing models to improve the next generation. If Claude can meaningfully speed up its own pre-training pipeline, it would mark a practical demonstration of recursive self-improvement, one of the capabilities the AI safety community has long watched closely. Whether that prospect excites or unnerves observers may depend on how much trust they place in the\u00a0safety-minded culture Anthropic\u00a0has cultivated since its founding.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Karpathy appears to be exactly where he wants to be: back in the lab, building models at the frontier.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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He will build a new group that uses Claude itself to accelerate the most expensive phase of frontier model development. 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