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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy as its momentum continues to surge

Nypost · · 434 words · By Marc Vartabedian
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“Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla executive, has joined Anthropic”
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Two independent CNBC reports confirm that Andrej Karpathy announced he is joining Anthropic.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, announced on Tuesday that he's joining Anthropic.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-hires-openai-cofou…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic said Karpathy starts this week and will be part of the pretraining team
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-hires-openai-cofou…
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“Karpathy... is working on the pre-training team which is responsible for “the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities,” the company said.”
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A TechCrunch report citing an Anthropic spokesperson confirms Karpathy will start a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research.
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He served as the director of artificial int…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
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web search NEUTRAL — An Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch that Karpathy will start a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. Karpathy is one of the few researchers who can bridge the gap bet…
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-k…
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher, engineer, and educator. He's the former director of AI at Tesla, a founding member of OpenAI, and an educator a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0
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“The 39-year-old computer guru — who started his new gig at the Dario Amodei-led company this week”
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Wikipedia explicitly states Andrej Karpathy was born on 23 October 1986, which makes him 38 or 39 depending on the current date in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He also worked as th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tesla Autopilot, an advanced driver-assistance system ("ADAS") for Tesla vehicles, uses a suite of sensors and an onboard computer. It has undergone several hardware changes and versions since 2014, m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot_hardware
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tesla Dojo is a series of supercomputers designed and built by Tesla for computer vision video processing and recognition. It was used for training Tesla's machine learning models to improve its Full…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Dojo
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“The 39-year-old computer guru — who started his new gig at the Dario Amodei-led company this week”
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Multiple independent sources (Energydigital, Nypost) identify Dario Amodei as the CEO of Anthropic.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has argued that the calculus is genuinely difficult, warning in February that being even a year out on growth projections, or misjudging the rate of expansion, could be en…
https://energydigital.com/news/anthropic-poaches-google-ener…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Toner recounted a late Sunday night call with Anthropic board members including the firm’s CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the merger proposal — under which Amodei would have ended up helming OpenAI, too.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/business/former-openai-board-m…
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“Musk testified that he had poached Karpathy from OpenAI to join Tesla”
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Both WIRED and Slashdot report that Elon Musk testified in court regarding his recruitment of Karpathy from OpenAI to Tesla.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He also worked as th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Schulman (born 1987 or 1988) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of OpenAI. In August 2024, he announced he would be joining Anthropic. In February 2025, he announced…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schulman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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“OpenAI President Greg Brockman said Musk offered him “an apology and a confession,” about hiring Karpathy.”
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While there is evidence of Musk apologizing for 'pruning' a friend network in a Verge article, there is no specific evidence in the provided results confirming Greg Brockman's statement about an 'apology and a confession' specifically regarding Karpathy.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Schulman (born 1987 or 1988) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of OpenAI. In August 2024, he announced he would be joining Anthropic. In February 2025, he announced…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schulman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) is a large language model developed by OpenAI and the fourth in its series of GPT foundation models. GPT-4 is preceded by GPT-3.5 and followed by its suc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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“At Tesla, Karpathy led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot, the company’s self-driving unit.”
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Confirmed by CNBC, Wikipedia, and The Indian Express that Karpathy led the computer vision team for Tesla Autopilot.
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He served as the director of artificial int…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator. He was a founding member of OpenAI and later the Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team of the Autopilot.
https://karpathy.ai/
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web search NEUTRAL — Who is Andrej Karpathy? Though Karpathy has worked at prominent tech firms such as Tesla and OpenAI, his roots lie in teaching.During his tenure with the autonomous car manufacturer, Karpathy led the …
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-inte…
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“He left Tesla in 2022, according to his LinkedIn profile.”
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CNBC and Tesla Oracle both confirm Karpathy announced his departure from Tesla in July 2022.
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web search NEUTRAL — Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/tesla-ai-leader-andrej-karpa…
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web search NEUTRAL — — Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) July 13, 2022. Tesla CEO Elon Musk also wrote a farewell note in response to Andrej’s tweet, “Thanks for everything you have done for Tesla! It has been an honor working …
https://www.teslaoracle.com/2022/07/14/tesla-ai-director-and…
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He served as the director of artificial int…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
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“He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University”
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Confirmed by CNBC, Tesla Oracle, and Analytics India Magazine that Karpathy holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford.
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
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web search NEUTRAL — Through the years, Musk has held high regard for Andrej Karpathy and his work with neural nets and deep learning. Karpathy holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University...
https://www.teslaoracle.com/2022/07/14/tesla-ai-director-and…
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrej Karpathy holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University and specialises in deep learning and computer vision.
https://analyticsindiamag.com/global-tech/no-surprise-andrej…
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“Anthropic said it also hired cybersecurity veteran Chris Rohlf to join its frontier red team”
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The web search results for 'Chris Rohlf' returned generic results about the name 'Chris' and Chris Hemsworth, providing no evidence regarding a cybersecurity veteran joining Anthropic.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 7, 2025 · If a favorite celebrity bearing the name Chris comes to mind, this list offers the chance to spotlight them. Peruse the famous Chrises and cast a vote for those who stand out as the most…
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web search NEUTRAL — Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, and Christine. [1] Chris is also used as a name in its own right, but it is not as common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris
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web search NEUTRAL — Christopher "Chris" Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Leonie Hemsworth (née van Os), an English teacher & Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165110/
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“Rohlf previously was security engineering director at Meta.”
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“San Francisco-based Anthropic”
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“Its powerful new Mythos model has also whipped up excitement”
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“Karpathy will serve on Nicholas Joseph’s pre-training team.”
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