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This initial phase, known as pretraining, was then followed by additional training using more sophisticated models that include potential new physics.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

Anthropic confirmed that Karpathy has joined its pretraining program, which is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give its chatbot Claude “its core knowledge and capabilities.”

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Karpathy has joined Nick Joseph’s pretraining team, responsible for the large-scale training runs that gives the Claude large language model its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

He will lead a new group focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research, according to Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

“If ‘emergence’ merely unlocks capabilities represented in pretraining data,” said Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan, “the gravy train will run out soon.”

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2023