alt Hacker NewsKarpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic.
Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-a...
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the_arun • yesterday at 7:27 PM
This is good branding move for Anthropic. Karpathy is well respected among ML crowd.
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ed_elliott_asc • yesterday at 6:04 PM
Why do they need this when they have the next gen mythos? Surely that can manage everything?
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Specifically it looks like he's planning to extend the ideas from https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch into a larger effort towards recursive training improvement [1]:
> Excited to welcome Andrej to the Pretraining team! He'll be building a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself. I can’t think of anyone better suited to do it — looking forward to what we build together!
[1] https://x.com/nickevanjoseph/status/2056760504949842219