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May 29, 2026

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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

OpenAI co-founder and ex-Tesla AI director — most recently running Eureka Labs independently — moves to Anthropic. The highest-profile individual transfer in the industry's history; compounds Anthropic's recruiting flywheel and weakens xAI and OpenAI's bench in the same move.