person
Andrej Karpathy
Founder of Eureka Labs; OpenAI and Tesla alumnus
Prolific AI educator who led Tesla Autopilot and later joined OpenAI. Teaches LLMs from scratch in public. Maintains a measured optimism about AI progress with occasional safety caveats.
Profile
expertise
Frontier builder
Currently or recently led training, architecture, or safety work on a frontier model. Hands on the loss curve.
Former Tesla AI director, OpenAI founding team. Hand-built much-used training/teaching infrastructure (nanoGPT, micrograd). Started Eureka Labs (2024).
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Tutorial videos have millions of views. Recognised broadly online. Mainstream tech-press regular.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Stanford PhD 2015 with Fei-Fei Li. CS231n course taught the deep-learning era. OpenAI founding team 2015.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Techno-optimismmixedtentative
Technology and markets solve risks faster than regulation creates themFocuses on education and on democratising access to LLMs; publicly less engaged with extinction-risk framings than some peers.
The most important thing is to have a LOT of people understanding how LLMs work, because this is the technology that will shape the next decade.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.