George Hotz
Programmer known as geohot; founded comma.ai and tiny corp (tinygrad); first to unlock the iPhone.
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- George Hotz, known online as geohot, is an American programmer and security hacker.
- In 2007, at seventeen, he was the first person reported to SIM-unlock an iPhone, and in 2010 he broke the PlayStation 3's security, which led to a Sony lawsuit settled in 2011.
- He founded comma.ai in September 2015, which makes the open-source driver-assistance software openpilot, and stepped back from running it in October 2022.
- In November 2022 he founded tiny corp, which builds the tinygrad deep learning framework and the tinybox computer.
Key facts
- Born
- October 2, 19891
- Founded
- comma.ai (September 2015); tiny corp (November 5, 2022)1
- Jobs
- Facebook, from May 2011 to January 2012; Google Project Zero (2014); Vicarious, from January to July 2015; a Twitter internship that he quit on December 20, 20221
- Known for
- First reported iPhone SIM unlock (2007); PlayStation 3 hypervisor exploit (2010); towelroot Android root (2014)1
Roles
Before
Part of until Jan 2012
Meta (worked at Facebook) source on Meta
Links
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