Anthropic Recruits OpenAI Co-Founder Karpathy to Lead AI-Powered Pre-Training Push
Anthropic has hired Andrej Karpathy, the researcher who co-founded OpenAI and led Tesla’s autonomous driving programme, to head a new team using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. Karpathy, who joined this week, said he regards the coming years at the frontier of large language models as especially formative and expressed enthusiasm about returning to core […]
SandboxAQ, the Alphabet spinout chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has partnered with Anthropic to embed its large quantitative models directly into Claude, making powerful drug discovery and materials science tools accessible through a natural language interface for the first time. The company’s proprietary LQMs are physics-grounded AI models trained on real-world lab data […]
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a New York-based developer tools startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray, in a deal reported to be worth more than $300 million. The acquisition removes a critical piece of shared AI infrastructure from competitors, as Anthropic confirmed it will wind down all hosted Stainless products and restrict access exclusively […]