Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader

Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher who co-founded OpenAI and later led Tesla's computer vision team, has joined Anthropic as a senior hire. At Anthropic, he will build a team focused on using Claude (the company's LLM, or large language model, a type of AI trained on text) to improve pretraining research, which helps AI models learn their core knowledge and abilities. This hire is part of Anthropic's ongoing competition with OpenAI to attract top talent in the AI field.