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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic after AGI timeline prediction

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Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher, joined Anthropic on May 19, 2026. This move comes seven months after he stated that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) was still approximately a decade away. The announcement was made via a social media post, which also linked to an updated transcript of a previous discussion with Dwarkesh. AI

IMPACT Confirms Anthropic's continued hiring of top AI talent, potentially influencing future research directions.

RANK_REASON Hiring of a prominent researcher at an AI lab.

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on May 19, 2026 — seven months after telling Dwarkesh AGI is still a decade away. Post updated with enriched transcript with li

    Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic on May 19, 2026 — seven months after telling Dwarkesh AGI is still a decade away. Post updated with enriched transcript with links, notes, and references. https:// benjaminhan.net/posts/20260520 -karpathy-agi-update/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium…

    LINKS benjaminhan.net/…/20260520-karpathy-agi-u…

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