# Andrej Karpathy

The Prodigal Researcher Returns: Andrej Karpathy’s Move to Anthropic Signals the Era of Recursive AI

AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to lead a team dedicated to automating AI research using Claude models. His pivot from an AI skeptic to a core researcher at Anthropic highlights a new industry focus on recursive self-improvement and the centralization of elite talent in well-funded labs.