Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative.…
Andrej Karpathy Twitter · Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) · 2026-05-19
Andrej Karpathy, prominent AI researcher and educator formerly of OpenAI and Tesla, announces he has joined Anthropic to return to frontier LLM research and development.
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- Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic as of May 2026.
- Karpathy views the next few years at the frontier of LLMs as especially formative for the field.
- He plans to eventually resume his AI education work despite focusing on R&D at Anthropic.
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I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative.
I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.