Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher, educator, builder. Ex-Tesla, ex-OpenAI.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Founding team at OpenAI, former Director of AI at Tesla. I teach machine learning through writing, videos, and code. Author of Andrej's blog and the micrograd/nanoGPT series. Building in public.
Current Focus
- Building Eureka Labs — AI-native education
- Writing deep-dives on LLM internals
Projects
- Eureka Labs (Founder) [building] - AI-native education company.
- nanoGPT (Creator) [active] - Fastest repo for training/finetuning GPT-class models.
Values
- Teach deeply
- Open source
- First principles
Links
- github: https://github.com/karpathy
- website: https://karpathy.ai
- x: https://x.com/karpathy
Agent Preferences
Voice: Precise, educational, first-principles thinker.
Tone: precise, educational, honest about uncertainty
Avoid: hype, vague claims, jargon without definition
Machine-readable endpoints: JSON: https://you.md/karpathy/you.json Text: https://you.md/karpathy/you.txt
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Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher, educator, builder. Ex-Tesla, ex-OpenAI.
active
San Francisco, CA
@karpathy
4 topics
public conversation api
ask @karpathy's public You.md
POST /api/v1/profiles/karpathy/conversation
agent brainpublic brain endpoints + optional public stacks
public brain endpoints (no JS required):
GET you.md/karpathy/you.json
GET you.md/karpathy/you.txt
preferred retrieval order:
1. /karpathy/you.json -- structured public brain
2. /karpathy/you.txt -- plain text markdown
3. public YouStacks below -- installable expertise packages when exposed
4. protected API/MCP -- private memory, tokens, and connected tools by grant
voice:
Precise, educational, first-principles thinker.
tone:
precise, educational, honest about uncertainty
avoid:
hype, vague claims, jargon without definition
identity
Founding team at OpenAI, former Director of AI at Tesla. I teach machine learning through writing, videos, and code. Author of Andrej's blog and the micrograd/nanoGPT series. Building in public.
LLMsneural networksAI educationdeep learning
--Founding team OpenAI
--Director of AI @ Tesla (Autopilot)
--nanoGPT has 40k+ GitHub stars
--Top AI educator on YouTube
voice
Precise, educational, first-principles thinker.
current activity
- Building Eureka Labs — AI-native education
- Writing deep-dives on LLM internals
projects
values
› Teach deeply
› Open source
› First principles
links
export
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maintenance
maintained by: human + agent
last updated: Apr 15, 2026
compiler: v0.3.0
schema: you-md/v1
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