Anthropic can’t seem to stop winning. After a string of blockbuster model releases, a new funding round reportedly in talks at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, and an annual run rate that’s nearly parabolic, it has now hired one of OpenAI’s—its bitter competitor—most famous alumni.
“Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic,” Andrej Karpathy wrote on X on Tuesday, in a post that drew nearly 3 million views within one hour. He said the next few years at the frontier of LLMs would be “especially formative” and that he was eager to get back to research. He started this week on the pretraining team.
