The Canadian computer scientist announced that he will work on R&D at the AI firm. “I think the next few years at the frontier of [large language models] will be especially formative,” he said. (The Logic)

Talking point: Attracting Karpathy is a coup for Anthropic as it battles OpenAI for top spot among the independent AI labs. His career encompasses many of the field’s most important institutions and figures. Karpathy studied under giants of the field like Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto, and Fei-Fei Li, Andrew Ng and Sebastian Thrun at Stanford University. He was a founding researcher at OpenAI, then led computer vision at Tesla as it tried to build self-driving capabilities. More recently, his tinkering and interests have shaped the tech world’s understanding and use of AI. Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” for AI-generated programming and helped popularize talking instead of typing to your AI tools. At Anthropic, he’ll lead a team using its Claude AI system to train new models.