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Renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic, marking a significant talent acquisition for the AI company. Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and former Director of AI at Tesla, expressed excitement about contributing to LLM research and development. He also plans to continue his work in AI education.Listen to this article in summarized format
Karpathy, a major figure in modern deep learning, previously cofounded OpenAI and served as the director of AI at Tesla, where he led the Autopilot computer vision team.
In a personal update sharing the news, Karpathy said, "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."
He had recently been focusing on his AI education startup Eureka Labs.
