OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

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Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to lead a team focused on using AI to accelerate pre-training research.

Summary

Andrej Karpathy, a renowned AI researcher and former leader at OpenAI and Tesla, has joined Anthropic. He will lead a team dedicated to using the Claude model to enhance pre-training research, a critical and compute-intensive phase of AI development. Anthropic aims to leverage his expertise to remain competitive by focusing on AI-assisted research. Additionally, the company has hired cybersecurity expert Chris Rohlf to strengthen its frontier red team.

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