Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI's original co-founders and Tesla's former AI head, joins Anthropic; says: I plan to resume my work on…
TIMESOFINDIA.COM / May 20, 2026, 15:05 (IST)
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and Tesla's former AI head, has officially joined Anthropic's pre-training team. The renowned AI researcher will lead a new group leveraging Claude to accelerate pre-training research, reporting to head of pre-training Nick Joseph. Known for coining "vibe coding" and founding Eureka Labs, Karpathy's hire signals Anthropic's strategy to compete with OpenAI and Google through AI-assisted frontier model research.