Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy | |
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 Karpathy at Stanford in 2016 | |
| Born | Andrej Karpathy 23 October 1986 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
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| Awards | Innovators Under 35 (2020) TIME100 Most Influential People in AI (2024)[1] |
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| Fields | Machine Learning Computer Vision Artificial intelligence[2] |
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| Thesis | Connecting Images and Natural Language (2016) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fei-Fei Li |
| Website | karpathy |
Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986[3]) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence at Tesla. He co-founded OpenAI[4] where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision.[2][5] He currently runs education startup Eureka Labs.
Education and early life
Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia),[6][7][8] and moved to Toronto with his family at 15.[9] He dual-majored in Computer Science and Physics at University of Toronto, graduating in 2009 and received a master's degree from University of British Columbia in 2011.[10] His master's thesis Learning Controllers for Physically-simulated Figures involved applied machine-learning for robotics .
In 2006, Karpathy started a YouTube channel badmephisto and posted popular Rubik's cube solving tutorials[11]
In 2015 Karpathy received a PhD on the intersection of natural language processing, computer vision, and deep learning models from Stanford University under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li. [12]
Career and research
In 2015 he authored and taught an early deep learning course at Stanford.[13]
Karpathy founded OpenAI[4] and worked there as a research scientist from 2015 to 2017.[14] In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence and contributed to Autopilot.[15] He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 in 2020.[16]
After a sabbatical from Tesla, he left in July 2022.[17] In 2023, he made a series of neural network tutorials on YouTube and his personal site.[18][19] In 2023 Karpathy returned to OpenAI.[20], leaving again in February of 2024 [21] to found Eureka Labs.[22][23] He was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024.[24]
In February 2025, Karpathy coined the term vibe coding to describe the usage of AI tools to generate software.[25]
References
- ^ "U of T CS alumni among Time magazine's TIME100 Most Influential People in AI". Retrieved 25 June 2025.
- ^ a b Andrej Karpathy publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "Self-reported on twitter". Archived from the original on 23 August 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Introducing OpenAI". OpenAI. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ Andrej Karpathy on Medium
- ^ "The Slovak, who leads the development of AI at Tesla, is leaving. It was an honor, says Musk – Živé.sk". 14 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ Živé.sk (25 June 2020). "Šéf AI v Tesle: Rodák zo Slovenska je medzi TOP 35 mladými novátormi". Živé.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Slovák Andrej Karpathy z Tesly patrí podľa MIT medzi 35 top inovátorov". TeslaMagazin.sk (in Slovak). 23 June 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Next Generation Machine Learning - Training Deep Learning Models in a Browser: Andrej Karpathy Interview | DataScienceWeekly.org". DataScienceWeekly.org. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Andrej Karpathy Academic Website". cs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ badmephisto (25 July 2009). How to solve a Rubik's Cube. Retrieved 24 July 2025 – via YouTube.
- ^ Karpathy, Andrej (2016). Connecting Images and Natural Language. stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
- ^ "Stanford University CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition". cs231n.stanford.edu. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Andrej Karpathy". karpathy.ai. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ Etherington, Darrell (21 June 2017). "Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ^ "Andrej Karpathy (Innovators Under 35 2020)". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ Kolodny, Lora (13 July 2022). "Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company". CNBC. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "Andrej Karpathy - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Andrej Karpathy". karpathy.ai. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- ^ @karpathy (9 February 2023). "Some personal news: I am joining OpenAI (again :)). Like many others both in/out of AI, I am very inspired by the impact of their work and I have personally benefited greatly from it. The future potential is especially exciting; it is a great pleasure to jump back in and build!🪄" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "OpenAI Researcher Andrew Karpathy Departs". 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Announces Eureka Labs, an AI Education Startup". Inc.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2024. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
- ^ Andrej (24 July 2025), karpathy/LLM101n, retrieved 24 July 2025
- ^ Chow, Andrew R. (5 September 2024). "Andrej Karpathy: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024". Time. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
- ^ Roose, Kevin (27 February 2025). "Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 March 2025.