Andrej Karpathy
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THE DEAL
Karpathy built one of Stanford's defining neural-network courses, joined OpenAI at the start, ran Tesla's vision stack, came back for GPT-4 — then quit building models to teach everyone how they work.
SOURCES: Andrej KarpathyEureka Labs
AT A GLANCE
- EDUCATION
- University of Toronto · Computer science and physics · BSc · double major with a minor in mathematicsAndrej Karpathy
- EDUCATION
- University of British Columbia · Machine learning for physically simulated figures · MScAndrej Karpathy
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- EDUCATION
- Stanford University · Computer vision and natural language processing · PhDAndrej Karpathy
THE ARCHIVE
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THE TIMELINE7 sourced events
HE TEACHES THE INTERNET HOW AI WORKS
Karpathy built one of Stanford's defining neural-network courses, joined OpenAI at the start, ran Tesla's vision stack, came back for GPT-4 — then quit building models to teach everyone how they work. The punchline: he saw frontier AI from the inside twice — founding OpenAI, then directing Tesla's Autopilot vision — and decided explaining it beats shipping it.
2005
HE FINDS DEEP LEARNING IN HINTON'S ORBIT
Karpathy began his University of Toronto computer-science and physics studies in 2005 and says Geoffrey Hinton’s class and reading groups were where he first got into deep learning.
SOURCES: Andrej Karpathyfirst-party
2011
PHD ON MACHINES THAT SEE AND READ
Karpathy began doctoral work at Stanford on convolutional and recurrent neural networks, computer vision and language, while also interning at Google Brain and DeepMind.
SOURCES: Andrej Karpathyfirst-party
2015
HE BUILDS STANFORD'S DEEP-LEARNING CLASS
Karpathy designed and became the primary instructor for Stanford’s CS231n, which grew into one of the university’s most popular deep-learning courses.
SOURCES: Andrej Karpathyfirst-party
2015
HE WAS OPENAI BEFORE IT WAS COOL
Karpathy became a research scientist and founding member of OpenAI in 2015, years before it became famous, and stayed through 2017.
SOURCES: Andrej Karpathyfirst-party
2017
TESLA HANDS HIM THE VISION STACK
Karpathy became Tesla’s Director of AI and led the computer-vision team behind Autopilot, including labeling, training and deployment on Tesla’s inference hardware.
SOURCES: Andrej Karpathyfirst-party
2023
BACK TO OPENAI FOR GPT-4
Karpathy returned to OpenAI in 2023 and says he built a team working on midtraining and synthetic-data generation.
SOURCES: Andrej Karpathyfirst-party
Jul 16, 2024
HE TURNS FROM BUILDING MODELS TO TEACHING EVERYONE ABOUT THEM
Karpathy launched Eureka Labs, an AI-native education project, while expanding his public teaching on large language models and neural networks.
SOURCES: Eureka Labsfirst-party
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