SMRTR AIMay 19, 2026Hacker News

Karpathy Joins Anthropic

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Andrej Karpathy, the prominent AI researcher known for his work at OpenAI and Tesla, has joined Anthropic to lead a new team focused on using Claude to speed up pre-training research — the expensive, compute-heavy process that gives AI models their core capabilities. His hire signals that Anthropic believes AI-assisted research, not just raw computing power, is its best strategy for competing against OpenAI and Google.

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