Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher and educator who led Tesla’s Autopilot vision and co-founded OpenAI

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Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher who was a founding member of OpenAI, led computer vision for Tesla’s Autopilot as director of AI, and created popular deep-learning courses. He founded the AI education company Eureka Labs in 2024 and joined Anthropic in 2026.

Biography

Background

Karpathy was born in Bratislava and moved to Toronto at 15. He studied at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia and earned his PhD at Stanford under Fei-Fei Li, working on image captioning.

Teaching

At Stanford he created CS231n, a course on convolutional networks whose online lectures reached a huge audience.

OpenAI and Tesla

He was a founding research scientist at OpenAI in 2015. From 2017 to 2022 he was Tesla’s director of AI, leading the camera-based neural networks for Autopilot. He briefly returned to OpenAI in 2023.

Eureka Labs and Anthropic

His YouTube series such as “Neural Networks: Zero to Hero” teach how to build language models from scratch. He founded Eureka Labs in 2024, popularised the phrase “vibe coding” in 2025 and joined Anthropic’s pretraining team in 2026.

Timeline

1986

Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
2015

PhD from Stanford; founding member of OpenAI
2017

Director of AI at Tesla
2022

Leaves Tesla
2023

Returns to OpenAI
2024

Founds Eureka Labs
2025

Coins “vibe coding”
2026

Joins Anthropic

Notable works

2015

CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition Course
2022

nanoGPT Software

Did you know?

1
He once trained himself to classify ImageNet images to compare with AI.
2
His blog post “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” is widely read.
3
He speaks Slovak and English.

Connections

Also born on 23 October

Frequently asked

Who is Andrej Karpathy?

How old is Andrej Karpathy?

Andrej Karpathy is 40 years old, born on 23 October 1986 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

Where is Andrej Karpathy from?

Andrej Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

What is Andrej Karpathy known for?

Andrej Karpathy is best known for OpenAI founding member; Tesla director of AI; Stanford CS231n; Eureka Labs; coining “vibe coding”.

References

Andrej Karpathy — Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
Official website. karpathy.ai. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
Andrej Karpathy (Q56037405) — structured data. Wikidata. Retrieved 4 November 2026.

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First published 4 November 2026
Last updated 5 November 2026

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Andrej Karpathy

Biography

Background

Teaching

OpenAI and Tesla

Eureka Labs and Anthropic

Timeline

Notable works

Did you know?

Connections

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