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It actually feels like a signal that it is in a tapering phase.

As in, if it was in a growth phase a freeform, solo - collab with who you want, would be more beneficial. But in a tapering phase you'd want structure and to be in the private formal meetings.

just an idea

So, does Anthropic pivot to military tech or pretend to do so before the IPO?

Or is this simply a deal where he uses his formidable influencer skills for Anthropic and gets to cash in on the IPO?

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?

Compare and contrast with working at OpenAI, Google, etc.?

- 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?

(I also assume they gave him a ton of independence in R&D)

You don't need to live in the bay area, most civilized places on earth let you live a comfortable life with a 10th of the salary, plus you are not selling your soul.

We are doing interesting R&D in other fields too, in places you would never believe.

Maybe the IPO potential was just too great to ignore and maybe AGI (A Giant IPO) is around the corner.

Leaving OpenAI to work for Elon Musk was a poor move, and AFAIK his work on CV at Tesla did not bring anything groundbreaking, unfortunately probably the opposite (the bet on camera-only driven system did not pay off) and his talks about the approach would indicate that his whole idea to make it work was nothing more than hill-climbing.

Also, his over-reaction to the whole Claw thing was a bit ridiculous, in my opinion.

I don't see him as a Scientist in the field, but more as an efficient tinkerer.

Anthropic: Okay, let's add two zeroes

Andrej: I am very excited to join Anthropic!

(I do not blame him, I think this is reasonable, I find the whole money-falling-from-the-sky thing amusing :-)

I hope he still gets to do some educative stuff on the side too

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 small enough to fit in your local 16GB VRAM, giving you a Claude Code like experience for zero token cost. That's going to wipe out most of Anthropic's current revenue base. It does have several cool initiatives in the pipeline, but bad things happen once your bread and butter is threatened (just ask OpenAI).

I mean short gig, few million dollars for Karpathy so makes sense for him but others should read the Cloudflare's report about the super scary model that Anthropic wouldn't release because they love humanity more than their balance sheet.

"However, it turns out, my deep passion can easily be put on hold with money. Also I'm not really sure what the definition of passionate is."

“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...

Skynet is winning.

But what is the solution? I don’t think it is safe for a society built on free speech and other liberal values to have a couple extremely powerful companies controlling all our information and imposing their rules and their politics on top of us. It was bad enough under the FAANG companies. This will be worse.

Personally I’m not comfortable with how much power Anthropic is accumulating. And with them partnering shamelessly with Elon Musk to use a datacenter powered by potentially illegal natural gas turbines, I feel like Dario is just not trustworthy.