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Andrej Karpathy researches AI at Anthropic after helping found OpenAI and leading Tesla’s computer-vision team. He also founded Eureka Labs and co-created Stanford’s CS231n course, with educational work that explains neural networks through code.

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Andrej Karpathy researches AI at Anthropic after helping found OpenAI and leading Tesla’s computer-vision team. He also founded Eureka Labs and co-created Stanford’s CS231n course, with educational work that explains neural networks through code.

Career

Andrej Karpathy attended Stanford University, earning a PhD, Computer Science as well as University of British Columbia, earning a MSc, Computer Science and also University of Toronto, earning a HBSc, Computer Science and Physics.

Pretraining Researcher at Anthropic until Present.Building a team using Claude to accelerate pretraining research.
Research Lead, Midtraining and Synthetic Data at OpenAI from 2023 to 2024.Returned to OpenAI to build a team working on midtraining and synthetic data generation.
Director of Artificial Intelligence at Tesla from 2017 to 2022.Led Tesla's computer-vision team for Autopilot and briefly worked on Tesla Optimus.
CS231n Instructor at Stanford University from 2016-01 to 2016-03.Co-created CS231n with Fei-Fei Li and was its primary instructor in 2015 and 2016. Dates reflect the Winter 2016 course offering.
Research Intern at Google DeepMind from 2015 to 2015.
Research Intern, Google Research at Google from 2013 to 2013.
Teaching Assistant, Graduate Probabilistic Machine Learning at University of British Columbia from 2011 to 2011.Teaching assistant for CPSC540; previously taught tutorial sections for UBC’s discrete mathematics course.