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Andrej Karpathy
Lately: Anthropic as Head of Pre-training Team, from OpenAI / Tesla.
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Andrej Karpathy → Anthropic as Head of Pre-training Team, from OpenAI / Tesla (Co-Founder; Director of AI)
The single most symbolic name-recruitment win of 2026 among labs still racing toward frontier models.
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Hiring & Talent
The Biggest AI Hires of 2026 (So Far)
Fidji Simo relinquished her post as OpenAI's second-in-command to illness, Noam Shazeer and three Google veterans departed together to found a rival, and John Ternus rose to Apple's helm, rewriting AI's leadership map in 2026.