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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

I wonder if the timing of this, coming so soon after the Musk/Anthropic data center deal is just coincidence or not?

From Karpathy's various interviews I get the impression that he wants to leave the door open to working for Musk again at some point, perhaps on TeslaBot.

With Musk for now regarding Anthropic as a partner (or at least an enemy of his enemy), that seems to mean that Karpathy joining them is less likely to anger Musk than might otherwise have been the case. Who knows, maybe Karpathy was involved in brokering this data center deal?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by photochemsyn »

Looks like the one sector of the commercial AI world that will outlast the open source - local hardware transition is the military-industrial sector. I wonder what kind of classification-security rating is needed these days for onboarding?

“According to reports from The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, the AI model Claude, developed by Anthropic, was used in the initial U.S.-Israel military operations against Iran in late February 2026. The system, integrated into a platform developed by defense contractor Palantir, assisted with intelligence analysis, scenario planning, and targeting for strikes that resulted in the death of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”

https://biggo.com/news/202603032121_Anthropic_Claude_AI_Used...

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by dizhn »

orliesaurus wrote: post #160

Anthropic is on a roll: - best harness overall (well maybe until like a month ago when gpt5.5 and codex came out) - acquires bun - acquires stainless for SDKs - deal with Elon for compute - karpathy what else did I miss?

Tim Abbott the Zulip guy.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

He moves around quite a bit. Less than 2 years on average if you take away the longest and shortest jobs. It feels like this is just a celebrity hire to help raise IPO value, and then he'll move again when the tech hits another real-world scaling wall. Expect another short stint (stunt) with Anthropic.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by momojo »

davidatbu wrote: post #202
kingkongjaffa wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> creating magic everywhere they go Like specifically what has he done?

I can spare a minute :). This isn't exhaustive because this is just stuff I know of, obviously. - At Stanford, Led research on the first (to my knowledge) crop of joint image/text models. Super widely cited work. - At Tesla, led their whole self driving effort for a while, came up with critical techniques that allowed them to make progress (e.g., the concept of "auto labelling": using a much larger NN to generate tra…

Add microgpt to that list

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

jimbokun wrote: post #270
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He already stated his motivation a few months ago in an interview with Dwarkesh - basically saying that he might join one of the big labs, for a while, to keep in touch with frontier research. Andrej seems like a great guy, but him joining Anthropic feels a bit like a transactional relationship (rich old guy marries hot young chick). Anthropic get a "glorified marketer", and he gets a front row seat at SOTA LLM dev 2…

An employment relationship is transactional??? Like the employer pays money and the employee provides labor??? Scandalous!

Maybe poor choice of words on my part - what I meant was that this doesn't appear to be a case of AI research co. hires AI researcher to do AI research.

A regular marriage is transactional to some extent too right, but not quite the same as Anna Nicole Smith marrying a 90yr old.

As an aside, an Indian guy I used to work with once explained to me how traditional Indian arranged marriages, like his own, work, and they are HIGHLY transactional. It's not just a matter of same caste, same social status etc, but an explicit trade off. In my co-worker's case he cheerfully told me how his wife was very dark skinned, therefore considered not that attractive/desirable (to other Indians!), but her family had money and social status so it was considered a fair trade for a nice looking boy like himself!

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by baigy »

energy123 wrote: post #269
baigy wrote: post #255

Congrats to Karpathy. I wonder whether this is the right time to join Anthropic. Looks like it from the outside. But - unpopular opinion - I believe Anthropic is one open-source model away (that can code well) from a massive revenue/stock crash. We're already seeing Claude's cost escalate to astronomical levels. Most coding work is medium difficulty in the grand scheme of things. So the future is an open source model…

I heavily weight the explosive revenue growth of Anthropic and OpenAI above speculation about what open source models may do in the future. I've heard for over 6 months that there's no moat but the revenue growth keeps proving it wrong. Opinions have to adjust to meet reality. There's some kind of moat, for now at least, that is not being appreciated in the conventional wisdom. (If they were just burning Capex and no…

Your opinion also holds weight. In fact, I've been in your camp throughout, only having changed my mind in the last few weeks. I've seen legitimate instances of Anthropic costs surprising medium to large enterprises, so that's a demand shock. On the supply side, I've seen some very intense benchmarking going on at r/LocalLlama (the #1 community for opensource LLM tinkering IMO). It just feels like we're in a powder keg right now.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by amunozo »

dwa3592 wrote: post #167
NitpickLawyer wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then regulatory capture it to death. Seriously, Anthropic is top notch in their coding models, but they are not the good guys in the tech vs. product for humanity's sake debate.

yeah but i don't think there's any large org which is 'good guys'. Anyone who wants to become a monopoly or very very large is probably suffering from some sort of a neural condition (psychosis, if plural) which we will study 100 years from now. Right now they are rewarded but I think our little minds forget to take the negative externalities into account. I am working on a short story on this topic which is set in 2…

The difference is that Anthropic pretend they're the good guys, while the rest don't.
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