Ex-Tesla AI Director Joins Anthropic: How Andrej Karpathy Switched Sides

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Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s founding members and the former director of AI at Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), announced Tuesday morning that he is joining Anthropic.

“I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative,” Karpathy wrote, adding that he plans to return to hands-on research.

Karpathy left OpenAI in February 2024 to launch education startup Eureka Labs, but the destination tells the real story. Sam Altman’s lab keeps losing senior alumni to Dario Amodei’s.

A Pattern, Not An Anecdote

Karpathy is the third high-profile OpenAI figure to land at Anthropic in under two years. Jan Leike, OpenAI’s former head of alignment, defected in May 2024. Co-founder John …

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