Andrej Karpathy
Also known as Karpathy
AI researcher and educator; founding member of OpenAI, Director of AI at Tesla, founder of Eureka Labs.
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- Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and teacher.
- He designed and taught Stanford's first deep learning class, CS231n, was a founding member of OpenAI, and led the Autopilot computer vision team at Tesla from 2017 to 2022.
- He returned to OpenAI from 2023 to 2024, founded the AI education company Eureka Labs in 2024, and coined the term "vibe coding" in 2025.
- His YouTube lectures, including Zero to Hero, teach how neural networks and LLMs are built.
- In May 2026 he joined Anthropic.
Key facts
- Born
- 23 October 1986, Bratislava; moved to Toronto at 151
- Studied
- BSc in computer science and physics, University of Toronto, 2005–2009; MSc, University of British Columbia, 2009–20112
- PhD
- Stanford, 2011–2015, advised by Fei-Fei Li2
- CS231n
- Designed and was lead instructor of Stanford's first deep learning class; it grew from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 20172
- OpenAI
- Research scientist and founding member, 2015–2017; back from 2023 to 2024, building a team on midtraining and synthetic data2
- Tesla
- Director of AI, 2017–2022, leading the Autopilot computer vision team2
- Eureka Labs
- Founded the AI education company in July 2024; its first product was the course LLM101n1
- Vibe coding
- Coined the term in February 20251
- Anthropic
- Announced on 19 May 2026 that he had joined; the company said he would lead a pretraining research team1
Connections
Links
- karpathy.ai (opens karpathy.ai)
- Blog (opens karpathy.github.io)
- Bear blog (opens karpathy.bearblog.dev)
- X (opens x.com)
- YouTube (opens youtube.com)
- GitHub (opens github.com)
- Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Where they publish (ppll) (opens ppll.app)
- What they believe (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
- What they recommend (rcmnd) (opens rcmnd.app)
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