India, May 20 -- Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI, has joined Anthropic. The 39-year-old announced his move to Anthropic on Tuesday, saying he was "very excited to join the team" and return to research and development.

"Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative," Karpathy wrote on X. "I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time."

Anthropic said that he will be a part of their pretraining team, which is responsible for large-scale testing of Claude. According to a Business Insider report, he will report to Nicholas Joseph, another former OpenAI emplo...