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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic’s pre-training team to help launch a group focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. The move leverages his experience founding OpenAI and his prior work at Tesla, aiming to “supercharge” Claude’s pre-training capabilities.
Written from all 5 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Hacker News·Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
- TechCrunch·OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
- TechMeme·Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla (Madison Mills/Axios)
- VentureBeat·OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he's joining Anthropic
- The Next Web·OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI
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