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Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic to lead a new team focused on pretraining research for large language models. His hiring comes amid a competitive landscape for AI talent, as Anthropic aims to enhance its capabilities and valuation in the industry.
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- Andrej Karpathy announced his new position at Anthropic, starting this week, after previously working at OpenAI and Tesla.
- At Anthropic, he will focus on building a team to accelerate pretraining research using the company's Claude model.
- Karpathy has a background in AI and computer vision, having served as director of AI at Tesla and contributing to the development of Tesla Autopilot.
- His hiring is part of Anthropic's strategy to compete with OpenAI and attract top talent in the AI sector.
- Karpathy holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford and has recently worked on an AI education startup called Eureka Labs after leaving Tesla in 2022.
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