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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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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.

Your argument contradicts itself. If money was not an issue he could just build that environment for himself.

Do you have any idea how much it costs to build a frontier model and how much money it takes to enable R&D at the cutting edge?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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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/

Maybe he adds some semblance of stability? Anthropic probably is trying to sell it itself as the sane alternative to OpenAI with their IPO coming up choose us we are responsible.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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i wouldn't be surprised if he just becomes a glorified marketer for anthro. im also going to guess that whatever research he does would be free roam research that primarily serves to market the fact that claude was able to help perform the research. the visible stuff he's been working on has been mostly agent soft skills. off the top of my head is autoresearch and his the wiki knowledge stuff. nothing particularly gr…

> just becomes a glorified marketer That implies Karpathy is either dumb or desperate and he is neither of those by a long shot.

i mean he did publicly openly solicit interest to work at a frontier lab so he can be closer to what's going on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwSVtQ7dziU&t=2870s

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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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 :)

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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AI news and ESPN feels interchangeable sometimes.

At least with sports teams they entertain me and I can be a fan. For "X person joins Y company" I don't have a reason to care.

But with the financial community, some semblance of stability is always important particularly with an IPO coming up. Choose us we don’t have a sideshow going on with Elon like the other guys, OpenAI.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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post #18

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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.

Your argument contradicts itself. If money was not an issue he could just build that environment for himself.

No, money is not the only barrier to building things. I think karoathy could build his own lab if he wanted, but it would be years of doing things he doesn’t want. Why waste time running a business when he’d rather be researching?
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