I’ve joined Anthropic

rvz

The big question is... Why now? What happened to Eureka Labs? Maybe the IPO potential was just too great to ignore and maybe AGI (A Giant IPO) is around the corner.

enraged_camel

Pretty big talent win for Anthropic. Karpathy is one of those people who was working on AI before it became "a thing," and he's definitely both a thought leader and influential practitioner today.

wood_spirit

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312

yanis_t

Good for him. His learning materials are unmatched, but I don’t think there was a viable path with his educational company.

aizk

AI news and ESPN feels interchangeable sometimes.

dwa3592

Karpathy is talented and to me he always seemed like someone who would be against building something like skynet. Anthropic is lucky to have him.

amazingamazing

Money always wins.

bell-gwen

Well, I am listening.

ryeguy_24

Funny. He foreshadowed this in a recent interview. Saying that he may fall out of touch with evolving approaches and if any of the frontier labs would have him, he’d be interested. https://youtu.be/kwSVtQ7dziU?t=47m50s

markerbrod

I wonder what will happen with EurekaLabs now. I checked their X account, but the posts are now restricted. However, the background picture... that old AI-generated image feels surprisingly cringe ( https://x.com/EurekaLabsAI/header_photo ), incredible how much GenAI has improved since that image was created.

bilsbie

He should have done his own lab. He seems like someone capable of it and might bring some unique ideas.

ciwrl

very interesting news... we are living in exciting times.

Traster

Karpathy is probably one of the biggest names in AI, I do wonder where he fits now. He's sort of bounced around Tesla back to OpenAI back to independent. He sort of left OpenAI before it really hit the inflection point, and he was at Tesla for a long time and they didn't really deliver what they wanted on the AI side. Now he's bounced around a few places. I understand that the leaders in this market play this silly game of trying to buy up the names like trading cards but I wonder what this turns into.

423abaf

He is citing R&D? I have always been under the impression that he is an image recognition etc. expert rather than an LLM expert. So, does Anthropic pivot to military tech or pretend to do so before the IPO? Or is this simply a deal where he uses his formidable influencer skills for Anthropic and gets to cash in on the IPO?

ryzvonusef

Karpathy's career arc feels similar to Jim Keller's; a butterfly flitting from one flower to another, gathering experiences and creating magic everywhere they go.

mellosouls

Karpathy is a terrific communicator and populariser of the LLM landscape, and I do hope this isn't going to mean his work in that regard now gets dropped, or dropped into a private Anthropic-only void.

bicepjai

Great communicator. It’s sad that he had joined a closed llm org. I would have expected him to join forces with someone else releasing open-source models rivaling chinese model landscape. Capital always accumulates to the capital holder in capitalism :)

frellus

Sort of makes me sad, but . . . everyone has a price.

stephc_int13

I have been impressed by some of his work, especially on the vulgarisation and simplification. Excellent communicator and engineer. But I am a bit more skeptical about his taste and vision. Leaving OpenAI to work for Elon Musk was a poor move, and AFAIK his work on CV at Tesla did not bring anything groundbreaking, unfortunately probably the opposite (the bet on camera-only driven system did not pay off) and his talks about the approach would indicate that his whole idea to make it work was nothing more than hill-climbing. Also, his over-reaction to the whole Claw thing was a bit ridiculous, in my opinion. I don't see him as a Scientist in the field, but more as an efficient tinkerer.

ai_slop_hater

My personal update: just quit playing modded Minecraft. Thinking of downloading Apex Legends. What is everyone doing?