Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986[2]) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI,where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy

  • Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI,[19][20] where he was a research scientist from 2015 to 2017.[18] In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence and reported to Elon Musk.[21][7][22] He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 for 2020.[23] After taking a several-months-long sabbatical from Tesla, he announced he was leaving the company in July 2022.[24] As of February 2023, he makes YouTube videos on how to create artificial neural networks.[25]
  • It was reported on February 9, 2023, that Karpathy had announced he was returning to OpenAI.[26]
  • A year later on February 13, 2024, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Karpathy had left OpenAI.[27]
  • On July 16, 2024 Karpathy announced on his X account, that he started a new AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.[28] According to Eureka Labs, their first product will be the AI course, LLM101n.[29]

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