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Former Tesla AI executive, OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

By Thomson Reuters May 19, 2026 | 10:31 AM

May 19 (Reuters) – Former Tesla AI executive ​and ‌one of OpenAI’s founding members Andrej Karpathy ‌has ​joined ⁠Anthropic, he ⁠said on Tuesday.

“I think the next few ​years at the ⁠frontier ⁠of LLMs ​will be ​especially formative. I ‌am very excited to join ⁠the team here and get back ⁠to ‌R&D,” he ⁠said ​in ‌a post on ​X.

(Reporting ⁠by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay ​Kishore)