AI researcher and educator
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator, a founding member of OpenAI, and a former director of AI at Tesla working on computer vision.
About Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator whose public teaching covers neural networks and large language models. His educational videos include both technical lessons on building models and introductions for a general audience.
He was a founding member and research scientist at OpenAI, led Tesla's AI and computer vision work from 2017 to 2022, and returned to OpenAI in 2023 to work on midtraining and synthetic data. During his PhD at Stanford, he designed and taught the CS231n course on deep learning for visual recognition.
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- Anthropic Files Confidential S-1 with SEC: AI Safety Leader Eyes IPO →
On June 1, 2026, Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC, signaling their intent to go public. Fresh off a $65B Series H at $965B valuation, the Claude maker's IPO could be one of the largest tech offerings in history—and a watershed moment for AI safety.
- Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team: the AI talent move that matters (May 2026) →
Karpathy's second day at Anthropic (no LeetCode required). From co-founding OpenAI to leading Tesla's FSD, teaching millions through nanoGPT, and now using Claude to accelerate the core training processes that power frontier models. The move that made AI Twitter compare him to KD joining the Warriors.