en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 19 local time, OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy updated his personal status, announcing that he has officially joined the U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic. The AI expert, who holds dual Slovak-Canadian citizenship, believes that the frontier development of large language models will be particularly formative in the coming years, and he is very excited to join the Anthropic team and return to R&D work.
In his personal statement, Karpathy also expressed a deep passion for education and plans to resume related work at an appropriate time in the future. The 39-year-old researcher is one of the original 11 co-founders of OpenAI, having deeply participated in building the underlying architecture of the first-generation large model in 2015, making him an early pioneer of the GPT technology system.
Karpathy's career trajectory spans several of the most influential institutions in today's AI field. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, where he studied under renowned computer vision scholar Fei-Fei Li. After OpenAI, he served as Tesla's Senior Director of AI and head of the Autopilot Vision team from 2017 to 2022. After returning to OpenAI in 2023, he formed a new team focused on mid-training and synthetic data generation. Following his departure from OpenAI in 2024, Karpathy turned to AI education entrepreneurship and coined the term "vibe coding" in 2025.
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Anthropic was co-founded by former OpenAI Research Vice President Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei. It is currently one of OpenAI's main competitors in the global AI field. Karpathy's choice to join Anthropic's pre-training team will see him form a new team under the leadership of Nick Joseph, focusing on using the Claude model to accelerate pre-training research and help the model acquire core knowledge and capabilities.
Karpathy's addition is seen as a major breakthrough for Anthropic in the battle for top AI talent. Currently, only two members remain from OpenAI's original 11-person founding team, and Karpathy's departure further highlights the profound changes in the AI talent landscape. The Stanford CS231n course he led the creation of during his doctoral studies has become one of the most popular deep learning courses globally and still holds widespread influence in the field of AI education worldwide.
Anthropic is currently competing head-to-head with OpenAI's ChatGPT series through its Claude family of large language models, and Karpathy's joining will directly enhance its technical strength in the core model pre-training phase. As the global AI race continues to heat up, the movement of top AI research talent is becoming a focal point of competition among major labs.
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