Andrej Karpathy announces he is joining Anthropic's pretraining team

Announced he is joining Anthropic's pretraining team — under Nick Joseph

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Presstechcrunch.comhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropics-pre-training-team/

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