https://blog.bansalai.com/tags/research/Recent content in Research on Rishi's BlogHugoen-US&copy; 2026 Rishi BansalMon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.bansalai.com/posts/karpathy-joins-anthropic/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.bansalai.com/posts/karpathy-joins-anthropic/<div class="lead !mb-9 text-xl"> On May 19, 2026, Andrej Karpathy posted seven paragraphs to X announcing he was joining Anthropic. The post crossed 148,000 likes within a day, and someone on tech Twitter compared it to Kevin Durant joining the Warriors — the sport&rsquo;s best individual player walking onto the roster that was already winning. </div> <p>Karpathy&rsquo;s own framing was quieter: &ldquo;I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative… excited to join the team here and get back to R&amp;D.&rdquo; He would lead a new pretraining-research group under Nick Joseph, Anthropic&rsquo;s head of pretraining, built around a premise with a slight vertigo to it: use Claude to help build the next Claude.</p>