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Anthropic Brings on OpenAI Co-Founder Karpathy in Major Talent Win

Anthropic announced the hiring of Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before moving to Tesla as director of AI. Karpathy will join Anthropic's pretraining team, focusing on advancing the capabilities of the company's Claude models. The appointment marks another significant personnel victory for Anthropic in its competition with rival AI firms. Karpathy previously led Tesla's computer vision team for Autopilot after departing OpenAI in 2017. His move to Anthropic comes days after the company hired Ross Nordeen, a founding xAI member and former Tesla employee. Anthropic also recently secured a compute capacity agreement with SpaceX's xAI division. The hiring underscores intensifying competition for talent in the AI sector.