Andrej Karpathy
{{Short description|Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Andrej Karpathy
| image = Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI.png
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| caption = Karpathy at Stanford in 2016
| birth_name = Andrej Karpathy
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1986|10|23}}
| birth_place = Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
| fields = Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Artificial intelligence
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
- OpenAI (2015–2017, 2023-2024)
- Tesla, Inc. (2017–2022)}}
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
- University of Toronto (BS)
- University of British Columbia (MS)
- Stanford University (PhD)}}
| awards = Innovators Under 35 (2020)
| thesis_title = Connecting Images and Natural Language
| thesis_url = https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11849345
| thesis_year = 2016
| doctoral_advisor = Fei-Fei Li
| website = {{Official URL}}
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Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/261161354969358337 |title=Self-reported on twitter |access-date=25 April 2019 |archive-date=23 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823163529/https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/261161354969358337 |url-status=live }}) 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,{{cite news|url=http://www.autonews.com/article/20180426/COPY01/304269959 |title=Tesla's Autopilot chief steps down after two years|date=26 April 2018|accessdate=9 August 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/technology/artificial-intelligence-start-up.html |title=A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up|work=The New York Times |date=7 November 2017|accessdate=9 August 2018 |last1=Metz |first1=Cade }}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html |title=A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit|work=The New York Times |date=19 April 2017|accessdate=9 August 2018 |last1=Metz |first1=Cade }} where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision.{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/07/guy-taught-ai-remember-launching-startup/ |title=The Guy Who Taught AI to 'Remember' Is Launching a Startup|date=28 July 2018|accessdate=9 August 2018}}{{Google scholar id}}{{Medium.com|karpathy}}
Education and early life
Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia){{Cite web |title=The Slovak, who leads the development of AI at Tesla, is leaving. It was an honor, says Musk – Živé.sk |date=14 July 2022 |url=https://alwaysfreshnews.com/news/world/374155/the-slovak-who-leads-the-development-of-ai-at-tesla-is-leaving-it-was-an-honor-says-musk-zive-sk/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Živé.sk |date=2020-06-25 |title=Šéf AI v Tesle: Rodák zo Slovenska je medzi TOP 35 mladými novátormi |url=https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/147462/sef-ai-v-tesle-rodak-zo-slovenska-je-medzi-top-35-mladymi-novatormi/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Živé.sk |language=sk}}{{Cite web |last=today |first=newsy |date=2022-03-28 |title=The Slovak, who leads AI in Tesla, left the company for several months. He jokes with Musk about TikTok |url=https://beta.newsy-today.com/the-slovak-who-leads-ai-in-tesla-left-the-company-for-several-months-he-jokes-with-musk-about-tiktok/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Newsy Today |language=en-US }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web |date=2020-06-23 |title=Slovák Andrej Karpathy z Tesly patrí podľa MIT medzi 35 top inovátorov |url=https://www.teslamagazin.sk/andrej-karpathy-tesla-ocenenie-mit/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=TeslaMagazin.sk |language=sk-SK}} and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15.{{Cite news|url=https://www.datascienceweekly.org/data-scientist-interviews/training-deep-learning-models-browser-andrej-karpathy-interview|title=Next Generation Machine Learning - Training Deep Learning Models in a Browser: Andrej Karpathy Interview {{!}} DataScienceWeekly.org|work=DataScienceWeekly.org|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en-US}} He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at University of Toronto in 2009{{Cite web|url=https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/|title=Andrej Karpathy Academic Website|website=cs.stanford.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-11-12}} and his master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011, where he worked on physically-simulated figures (for example, a simulated runner or a simulated person in a crowd) with his adviser Michiel van de Panne.
Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2015 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|title=Connecting Images and Natural Language|url= https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11849345|website=stanford.edu|year = 2016|first=Andrej|last=Karpathy|publisher=Stanford University}}{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/does-robo-journalism-pose-a-threat-to-reporters-1.3019182 |title=Does 'robo-journalism' pose a threat to reporters?|date=23 March 2017|accessdate=9 August 2018}}
Career and research
He authored and was the primary instructor of the first deep learning course at Stanford, CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition.{{Cite web |title=Stanford University CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition |url=http://cs231n.stanford.edu/2015/ |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=cs231n.stanford.edu}} It became one of the largest classes at Stanford, growing from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017.{{Cite web |title=Andrej Karpathy |url=https://karpathy.ai/ |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=karpathy.ai}}
Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI,{{Cite web |date=2015-12-12 |title=Introducing OpenAI |url=https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=OpenAI |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Fan |first=Shelly |date=2015-12-20 |title=Inside OpenAI: Will Transparency Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence Run Amok? |url=https://singularityhub.com/2015/12/20/inside-openai-will-transparency-protect-us-from-artificial-intelligence-run-amok/ |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=Singularity Hub |language=en-US}} where he was a research scientist from 2015 to 2017. In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence and reported to Elon Musk.{{Cite web |last=Etherington |first=Darrell |date=2017-06-21 |title=Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tesla-hires-deep-learning-expert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision/ |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}{{cite news|url=https://qz.com/1011376/elon-musk-poached-andrej-karpathy-from-openai-to-be-teslas-tsla-director-of-artificial-intelligence/ |title=Elon Musk has poached a top mind in AI research—from himself|date=21 June 2017|accessdate=9 August 2018}}{{cite news |date=22 June 2017 |title=Tesla hired a top AI expert to lead a critical aspect of Autopilot -- here's what we know |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-andrej-karpathy-autopilot-vision-2017-6 |access-date=9 August 2018}} He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 for 2020.{{Cite web |title=Andrej Karpathy (Innovators Under 35 2020) | publisher=MIT Technology Review | url=https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/andrej-karpathy/ | accessdate=8 September 2022}} After taking a several-months-long sabbatical from Tesla, he announced he was leaving the company in July 2022.{{Cite web |last=Kolodny |first=Lora |date=2022-07-13 |title=Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/tesla-ai-leader-andrej-karpathy-announces-hes-leaving-the-company.html |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=CNBC |language=en}} As of February 2023, he makes YouTube videos on how to create artificial neural networks.{{Cite web |title=Andrej Karpathy - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=youtube.com}}
It was reported on February 9, 2023, that Karpathy had announced he was returning to OpenAI.{{Cite tweet |user=karpathy |number=1623476659369443328 |title=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!🪄}}
A year later on February 13, 2024, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Karpathy had left OpenAI.{{cite news|url=https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-researcher-andrej-karpathy-departs |title=OpenAI Researcher Andrew Karpathy Departs|date=13 February 2024|accessdate=13 February 2024}}
On July 16, 2024, Karpathy announced on his X account, that he started a new AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.{{Cite tweet |user=karpathy |number=1813263734707790301 |title=Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs🪄}} According to Eureka Labs, their first product will be the AI course, [https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n LLM101n].{{Cite web |title=Eureka Labs |url=https://eurekalabs.ai/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=eurekalabs.ai}}
In February 2025, Karpathy coined the term vibe coding to describe how AI tools allow hobbyists to construct apps and websites, just by typing prompts. He also remarked in an X post that English is going to be the world's most famous programming language.{{Cite news |last=Roose |first=Kevin |date=2025-02-27 |title=Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/technology/personaltech/vibecoding-ai-software-programming.html |access-date=2025-03-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
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External links
- [https://eurekalabs.ai/ Official Website of Eureka Labs]
- [https://github.com/EurekaLabsAI Official GitHub Account of Eureka Labs]
- [https://discord.gg/3zy8kqD9Cp Official Discord Account of Eureka Labs]
- [https://x.com/karpathy Andrej Karpathy] at Twitter
- [https://github.com/karpathy Andrej Karpathy] at GitHub
- [https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy Andrej Karpathy] at Youtube
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