Karpathy Joins Anthropic as R&D Lead After OpenAI Exit
Karpathy co-founded OpenAI in 2015, left for Tesla in 2017, returned in 2023, and now lands at Anthropic — a direct frontier-lab talent move ahead of the next LLM cycle.
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Karpathy co-founded OpenAI in 2015, left for Tesla in 2017, returned in 2023, and now lands at Anthropic — a direct frontier-lab talent move ahead of the next LLM cycle.
The relaunch puts a consumer-facing model back into Anthropic's lineup, sharpening competition in the consumer AI assistant market where ChatGPT and Gemini have set the baseline.