Quick Info
| Profession | AI researcher and educator |
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| Nationality | Slovak-Canadian |
| Date of Birth | 23/10/1986 |
| Age | 39 years |
| Birthplace | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
Latest News about Andrej Karpathy
19/05/2026
Andrej Karpathy announced that he had joined Anthropic’s pre-training team in May 2026. He said he would help build a group focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research, and multiple major outlets reported that he started that week.
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Bio/Wiki
| Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and educator who co-founded OpenAI, led AI at Tesla, and founded Eureka Labs in 2024. | |
| He has also been a prominent educator, especially through Stanford’s CS231n course and his online work on neural networks and large language models. | |
| In May 2026, he joined Anthropic’s pre-training team to lead a new group focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. |
Personal Life
| Moved to Toronto, Canada at age 15. |
Career
| Stanford | Primary instructor of CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition (2015-2017) |
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| OpenAI | Founding member and research scientist (2015-2017); returned briefly in 2023 |
| Tesla | Director of AI and Autopilot Vision (2017-2022) |
| Current | Founder of Eureka Labs (2024); YouTube educator on neural networks and LLMs; joined Anthropic pre-training team (May 2026) |
| Anthropic | Joined the pre-training team in May 2026; leading a group to use Claude for accelerating pre-training research |
| Independent | Educator and content creator (YouTube, GitHub, blog) |
Social Media
| https://x.com/karpathy | |
| YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@karpathy |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrej-karpathy-9a650716 |
Some Lesser Known Facts
| 1. Named MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 (2020) | |
| 2. Internships at Google (2013) and DeepMind (2015) | |
| 3. Moved to Toronto, Canada at age 15 | |
| 4. Released minGPT (2022) and nanoGPT (2023) | |
| 5. Founded Eureka Labs in 2024 to focus on AI education |