OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
Corroborated by 7 sources from 7 publishers
TL;DR
Reports differ across sources; according to venturebeat.com, openAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he's joining Anthropic.
Sources
1
Axios Feed
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude
2
Bloomberg Technology
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19/openai-founding-member-andrej-karpathy-takes-role-at-anthropic
3
TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropics-pre-training-team
4
VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/technology/andrej-karpathy-announces-hes-joining-anthropic
5
Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/who-is-andrej-karpathy-vibe-coding-anthropic-openai-rubiks-cube
6
Forbes Business
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2026/05/19/openai-cofounder-and-former-tesla-ai-leader-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic
7
Dow Jones WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/andrej-karpathy-tesla-alum-and-openai-co-founder-joins-anthropic-c665f51f?mod=rss_Technology