{"id":216589,"date":"2026-05-19T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:40:13","slug":"anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic hires OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/19\/anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead.html\">Anthropic hires OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI lead<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/19\/anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/19\/anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 12:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Keynote Appearance:<\/strong> Andrej Karpathy, Director of AI at Tesla, gave a keynote speech at the Train AI conference on May 10, 2018, in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>New Role Announcement:<\/strong> Karpathy announced his new role at Anthropic, starting this week, focusing on pre-training research to enhance the company&#8217;s Claude models.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Large Language Models (LLMs):<\/strong> According to Karpathy, the next few years in the development of large language models will be highly influential.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>High-Profile Hire:<\/strong> Karpathy\u2019s move to Anthropic comes amid significant talent competition between Anthropic and its rival, OpenAI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Previous Experience:<\/strong> Karpathy co-founded OpenAI before moving to Tesla, where he led the computer vision team for the Autopilot system.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Legal Context:<\/strong> Karpathy\u2019s history played a notable role in the Musk vs. Altman trial, where he was described as a key figure in computer vision by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Previous Engagements:<\/strong> After leaving Tesla, Karpathy returned to OpenAI for a brief period before starting AI education startup Eureka Labs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Educational Background:<\/strong> Karpathy holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic hires OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI lead https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/19\/anthropic-hires-openai-cofounder-andrej-karpathy-former-tesla-ai-lead.html Publish Date: 2026-05-19 12:31:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108309104-1779203699975-gettyimages-1321808924-56140952.jpeg?v=1779203735&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216591,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216589\/revisions\/216591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}