Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher, educator, builder. Ex-Tesla, ex-OpenAI.
San Francisco, CA
@karpathy
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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.
--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
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last updated: Apr 15, 2026
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