New Delhi, May 19 -- OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy has announced that he is joining Anthropic, marking a high-profile addition to one of OpenAI's biggest rivals in the artificial intelligence race.

In a post on X, Karpathy confirmed the move, writing: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. 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."

Karpathy is currently among the most influential figures in artificial intelligence and is widely credited with helping popularise the term 'vibe coding'.

The 39-year-old AI researcher was amon...