Karpathy on Danilo Falcão da Silvahttps://falcao.org/tags/karpathy/Recent content in Karpathy on Danilo Falcão da SilvaHugoen-usMon, 25 May 2026 18:05:00 -0300Karpathy at Anthropic, the Pope at the Vatican, and the Internet Losing Its Mindhttps://falcao.org/posts/karpathy-anthropic-pope-leo-what-is-real/Mon, 25 May 2026 18:05:00 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/karpathy-anthropic-pope-leo-what-is-real/<p>Two things happened in the same week. Both of them involved Anthropic. One was a major hire. The other was a Vatican press conference. Neither was fake. But the internet managed to smash them together into something that was, and now people are asking me if the Pope works at Anthropic.</p> <p>Let me untangle this.</p> <h2 id="what-actually-happened-the-karpathy-hire">What actually happened: the Karpathy hire</h2> <p>On May 19, 2026, Andrej Karpathy posted on X: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&amp;D.&rdquo;</p>