Andrej Karpathy
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Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He also worked as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, and in 2024 he founded Eureka Labs, an AI education platform. In 2026 he joined Anthropic as part of the pretraining team. Education and early life Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15. He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at the University of Toronto in 2009 and his master's degree at the University of British Columbia in 2011, where he worked on physically simulated figures. In 2006, Karpathy began posting videos on YouTube on his channel, badmephisto. He became known for Rubik's Cube tutorials; speedcuber Feliks Zemdegs has said he learned from them. Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2015 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task.
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- •Place of birth: Bratislava
- •Citizenship: Slovakia, Canada
- •Known as: computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher
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