John

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

Kubrick nailed it in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The apes encounter the black monolith. A perfect, mysterious rectangle. They stare, touch, circle it in awe; it changes everything. Tools, evolution, humanity itself begins.

Fast-forward to now: We wake up and immediately reach for our own glowing black rectangles. We stare at them for hours. Tap, swipe, scroll.

Every notification a tiny evolutionary leap.

Kubrick showed us the monolith as the spark of intelligence.

How many times have you checked your phone today already?

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@Polymarket Resched to next saturday please 🙏

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@peter_szilagyi This take hits the nail on the head.

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@elonmusk Dat top shelf weed doe! I noe! 😂😂

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

HOLY SMOKES!

Andrej Karpathy warned about this a month ago and today he announced he's joining Anthropic.

A month ago, Karpathy said openly that if you are outside a frontier lab, your judgment will inevitably start to drift.

You lose touch with what is actually being built, how these systems work under the hood, and where the entire field is heading next.

He said being inside one of the frontier labs doing really good work for some period of time might be the only way to stay genuinely connected to what is actually happening at the cutting edge.

Today he acted on exactly that.

Andrej Karpathy just announced he’s joining Anthropic’s pre-training team, placing him directly inside the most compute-intensive and technically demanding layer of building frontier AI models.

Pre-training is where the large-scale compute runs happen, where the fundamental capabilities of a model are baked in at the deepest level and where the gap between frontier labs and everyone else is either won or lost permanently.

He will also build and lead a new team focused on using Claude itself to accelerate pre-training research meaning Anthropic is now using its own models to help design and build the next generation of its models, closing the self-improvement loop that every major lab is racing to complete.

The choice of Anthropic specifically is the signal worth paying attention to.

Karpathy co-founded OpenAI, ran AI at Tesla for years, and spent the last two years as one of the most credible and widely followed independent voices in the entire field.

He had every option available to him, OpenAI where he helped build the original research culture, Google DeepMind, xAI and he chose Anthropic.

When the person who arguably understands AI pre-training better than almost anyone alive looks at the entire landscape and decides that Anthropic is where the most important work of the next few years will happen, that is not a career decision but rather a verdict on which lab is actually winning the research race right now.

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@elonmusk @NaomiSeibt "This and that" - super cringe

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@ScottiePippen Dat mantid doe

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@brentlajeunesse NEVER out of the fight 🔥

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@themaxhuang Agreed, the fight choreography was just blend of realism and special moveset staying strictly loyal the source material. Chefs kiss hope MK3 is in the works!

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@JT_Lines Lol nah, he lifts. Heavy.

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@kimmonismus Checkmate - Grok is about to get coding agents on steroids with anthropic and cursor. SpaceXai with the compute leverage pulling out all the stops!

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@PeterDiamandis @alexwg This pod is always on point. Thanks doc and team for the consistently juicy output!

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@iruletheworldmo Counting on u Theodore Strawberryman

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@iruletheworldmo Chefs kiss indeed. Sam is our hero, and strawberry man is his prophet.

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@HauntedEchoes13 Quality update and agreed. This year will be intense for horror.

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@mark_k @OpenAI

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@rawsalerts Let the pizza orders fly!

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@SoniaJwa Thank u for this sonia

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Very beautiful Cherry blossom reflections, Kyoto Japan.

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@SoniaJwa @DOTA2 Icy hottttt

[John @Johnny_Bobby]

@mark_k @xai It's a good model, sir.