Musical Chairs
The AI talent merry-go-round: Karpathy joins his fifth lab, and the corkboard files a budget request.
Read the collectible edition — as printed ↗- the lede
He's Back. (Again.)
Andrej Karpathy — henceforth, in these pages, the boomerang autodidact — has joined Anthropic. It is his fifth lab. The corkboard has been extended six inches northward to accommodate his portrait. This is the third such extension this…
- pseuds corner
"We will pursue safe superintelligence in a straight shot, with one focus, one goal, and one product."
Ilya Sutskever, founding statement, Safe Superintelligence Inc. · June 2024
- pseuds corner
"I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration."
Mira Murati, on resigning the CTO role at OpenAI · The Information · 25 September 2024
- pseuds corner
"We are building personal superintelligence for everyone."
Alexandr Wang, on assuming the role of Chief AI Officer at Meta Superintelligence Labs · June 2025
- pseuds corner
"I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative."
Andrej Karpathy, on joining his fifth frontier lab · X · 19 May 2026
- frontier circular
The Frontier Circular · №2
A palace gazette of trivial movements, recorded with the gravity they deserve.
- letters
Letters to the Editor · №2
Correspondence from the cast — plus one reader who sounds suspiciously real.
- awards
Standing Awards · №2
Numbered honours for service to the discourse. The mythology compounds.
- from the editor
From the Editor · №2
A short note from the desk.
- service
The Acquihire Beta
Fig. 2 · personal net worth (post-deal) vs. publicly-stated principles · regression
- service
The Class of '15, Ranked
By career stops · tiebreak by severance · n=8
- horoscope
The AI-Lab Horoscope · №2
Six labs. One paragraph each. Earth signs hire. Fire signs leave. Anthropic is, as ever, an earth sign.
- the web
The Web · №2
Vol. 2 · The Musical-Chairs edition. Every move below is on the record. Pull out, pin up, follow the string.