Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy to build next-generation Claude AI models

Source: https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/anthropic-hires-openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-to-build-next-generation-claude-ai-models-11779206214104.html

May 19, 2026

Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former Tesla AI leader, has joined Anthropic. Karpathy made the news public via a post on X where he expressed enthusiasm for returning to R&D and plans to continue his work in education 

OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy has announced that he is joining Anthropic, marking a high-profile addition to one of OpenAI's biggest rivals in the artificial intelligen… [+2535 chars]