Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic — building a team that uses Claude to speed up research

Andrei Karpate just joined Anthropic, and if you don't know who is this guy, like he's one of the brightest minds in AI of our era. He coined the term vibe coding, and here's just a few of his boring merits. He co-founded OpenAI, then he made Tesla's autopilot actually work with AI team in like five years, then he went back to OpenAI, then he left again and started his own AI education company. And now Anthropic, what's he's gonna do there? Hold a second. Because he did a lot of amazing open source projects, like NanoGPT MicroGrad and LLMC, like striped down implementations of the most complex AI systems in the world, so anyone can actually understand how they work. So Anthropic, in his own words here, but the part that nobody's talking about, that this hire is part of the deliberate Anthropic strategy. They're betting on AI system research over raw computational power to stay competitive, like with Google and OpenAI. And Andrei isn't just joining the pre-training team. He's building a dedicated group that uses Cloud to accelerate the research itself, like AI building better AI, that's the play. And Andrei, if you're watching this, that's so freaking impressive.