The Great AI Migration Continues: Karpathy Joins Anthropic Amidst Rivalry The hiring of Andrej Karpathy, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher and former OpenAI co founder, by Anthropic is the latest significant shift in the high stakes game of talent poaching within the AI industry.
This move marks Anthropic's continued positioning as the primary challenger to OpenAI's dominance.
Karpathy left Eureka Labs, where he had been working since 2022, and joined Anthropic after another high profile hire: Ross Nordeen, a founding member of xAI.