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Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic to lead pre-training — essentially training Claude to accelerate Claude. The corpus has recorded recursive self-improvement as a claim, a probability and a present phenomenon. Now it has a job title.

Google is processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month, up from 9.7 trillion two years ago.

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