I’ve joined Anthropic • Hacker News Board

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by ssgodderidge » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:18 PM UTC

aizk wrote: post #7

AI news and ESPN feels interchangeable sometimes.

Agreed! OpenAI even bought TBPN [1], who many have equated to ESPN for business. I think that even if Karpathy didn't add any new ideas to Anthropic (unlikely), adding him to the team is an interesting message to give to the market

[1] https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by clickety_clack » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

aizk wrote: post #7

AI news and ESPN feels interchangeable sometimes.

I’ve never seen names be big in the industry in this way before. It used to be founders, now it’s personalities.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by reducesuffering » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #2

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.

AGI around the corner. Comparatively little point educating people instead of machines

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by f311a » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #2

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.

Pressure, a lot of researchers believe LLMs will be able to self-improve. It's a good time right now to make some extra money.

I, personally, don't think there will be a better time for researchers to make so much money in a few years in any future of LLMs.

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Post by jasonmp85 » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:21 PM UTC

Barbing wrote: post #10

wood_spirit wrote: post #4

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

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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by bell-gwen » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

Well, I am listening.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by bell-gwen » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC

amazingamazing wrote: post #9

Money always wins.

True.

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Post by Sol- » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

amazingamazing wrote: post #9

Money always wins.

Come on, he definitely has more money than he needs given his past employers. For someone with his creative output, he probably just enjoys having an environment to build and explore.

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Post by bitwize » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

aizk wrote: post #7

AI news and ESPN feels interchangeable sometimes.

But you won't be stuck in Bristol, CT covering AI news.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by ryeguy_24 » Tue, May 19, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC

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