Posted by dmarcos 15 hours ago
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-a..., https://archive.ph/h6T3X
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.
Do you really want to be the person that hands this kind of tech to corporates? Or that does anything to benefit those corporates?
Maybe the IPO potential was just too great to ignore and maybe AGI (A Giant IPO) is around the corner.
I, personally, don't think there will be a better time for researchers to make so much money in a few years in any future of LLMs.
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.
This is a pretty unsubstantiated claim. Tesla is now launching robotaxis at a fraction of the cost of Waymos, in part because they don't need all the Lidar.
But Tesla has been promising full self-driving "next year" for quite a long time now, and it seems they are stuck at the "95% there" stage basically forever.
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