Did Karpathy leave Anthropic? The modification of his personal profile has sparked widespread speculation across the internet.

Just over two months after officially announcing his joining Anthropic, is Andrej Karpathy about to leave?

Recently, some netizens noticed that Karpathy has updated his personal profile, removing the company affiliation information from it.

Before the deletion, his profile clearly displayed the word "Anthropic". Some people say this change happened yesterday.

This small detail quickly sparked widespread public speculation: Has Karpathy already left Anthropic?

Some content creators also revealed that an unconfirmed claim says Karpathy has submitted his resignation, and politely thanked Anthropic for the opportunity they provided him. However, there is currently no reliable source or official statement to confirm this claim, so all related rumors should be treated with caution.

Meanwhile, different voices have emerged in the comment section. Some netizens pointed out that Karpathy might have modified his personal profile as early as May this year, and the number of followers shown in the two circulating screenshots differs by around 900,000, which suggests the screenshots might not be taken at the same time.

Tibo, the head of OpenAI Codex, also seemingly stepped in to respond and clarify the rumors about Karpathy's departure.

Recently, Anthropic has been caught up in another public controversy. The night before last, Jensen Huang posted his first post on X, sharing an open letter that NVIDIA co-signed, which emphasizes that the future AI world needs both top-tier closed-source models and top-tier open-source models.

This open letter quickly drew widespread attention. Elon Musk later reposted it to show his support, further fueling the discussion around open-source AI in Silicon Valley. The number of companies joining the co-signing list keeps growing, and even OpenAI has added its name to the signatories, but Anthropic is not on the list.

Some people have connected these two incidents together.

In fact, ever since Karpathy officially announced his joining Anthropic, discussions about him have never stopped. (See breaking news: Andrej Karpathy Officially Joins Anthropic!)

On May 19 this year, Karpathy suddenly announced on X that he was joining Anthropic, saying that he would work on the company's core pre-training team under the leadership of head Nicholas Joseph. As a co-founder of OpenAI and former head of Tesla AI, Karpathy's recruitment was once regarded by the public as an important victory for Anthropic in the talent competition against OpenAI.

By mid-June, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed export restrictions on Anthropic's latest models Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, banning foreign nationals from accessing these models. Soon after, the claim that "Karpathy, who was not born in the U.S., cannot access his own company's most powerful model" spread rapidly online. (See: The mastermind behind Trump's ban on Fable 5 is exposed? Karpathy might not be able to use it either)

After that, Karpathy reposted Anthropic's introductory post about Claude Tag. This feature allows Claude to join Slack channels like a team member, respond when @mentioned, and handle assigned tasks.

This move also sparked some discussions. Some people lamented that Karpathy, who used to be seen as a neutral educator (creating YouTube tutorials, working on open-source projects, with almost no commercial involvement), is now endorsing his employer's products.

However, as of now, neither the removal of the company affiliation from his personal profile nor the online rumors about his resignation are sufficient proof that Karpathy has left Anthropic. Let's all wait for Karpathy's official response together.

This article is from the WeChat public account “Synced” (ID: almosthuman2014), authored by Synced, and published with authorization by 36Kr.