Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic as platform posts respond with surprised Pikachu and awakening gorilla memes
Reactions include a shocked Pikachu close-up and jungle gorilla meme.
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Reactions include a shocked Pikachu close-up and jungle gorilla meme.
Many users praise Andrej Karpathy's move to Anthropic as an impressive run driven by genuine passion and engineering rigor, while others criticize it as hypocritical or traitorous switching for whoever is winning.
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Who did he leave? Why is this shocking?
Karpathy left his independent education-focused work to rejoin frontier LLM R&D at Anthropic. The move shocked observers as another major talent shift among top AI labs, prompting surprised Pikachu and disbelieving jungle gorilla memes.