Observer | Dario Amodei Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy in Major Talent Win by Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

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Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of Tesla’s Autopilot division, has joined Anthropic’s pre‑training team, a move announced on X on May 19 and hailed as a major talent win for the startup. Karpathy, who helped develop early GPT models, spent five years at Tesla, returned briefly to OpenAI, and in 2024 launched the AI‑education startup Eureka Labs before turning back to R&D at Anthropic. Elon Musk has praised Karpathy as “arguably the #2 guy in computer vision,” and his addition—along with other ex‑OpenAI staff such as Jan Leike and John Schulman—underscores Anthropic’s aggressive push to close the gap with OpenAI. The company is reportedly courting a $30 billion funding round that could value it at $900 billion, with a recent revenue run rate exceeding $30 billion, outpacing OpenAI’s $24 billion annualized revenue, and Karpathy will lead a team focused on using Claude to accelerate large‑scale pre‑training research.

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