Andrej Karpathy
playerAI & Compute
One of the most influential voices in AI just jumped to Anthropic to speed up how the next models are trained.
Who they are
Andrej Karpathy, a former AI director at Tesla and OpenAI.
What they do
He's a leading voice in the debate over how far AI can be scaled up.
How it works
An early endorser of the product Moltbook (now owned by Meta), he joined Anthropic around May 2026 to build a team using Claude to accelerate AI pretraining research, per a Tier-1 CNBC report.
Why it matters
His move signals where top AI talent and the frontier of model-training research are heading.
The engine's record — word for word
Ex-Tesla/OpenAI AI director. Early Moltbook endorser (now Meta subsidiary). Key voice in AI scaling debate.
**LIVE-FEED MAY 25 2026:** Joined Anthropic (announced ~May 19 2026) to build a team using Claude to accelerate pretraining research [Tier-1, CNBC].
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