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Core facts
- Entity type
- Person
- Date of birth
- 23 October 1986[1]structured public data sourceAndrej Karpathy — WikidataWikidataWikidata P569 records Andrej Karpathy’s date of birth.CheckedOpen original source
- Place of birth
- Bratislava[1]structured public data sourceAndrej Karpathy — WikidataWikidataWikidata P19 identifies Bratislava as Andrej Karpathy’s place of birth.CheckedOpen original source
- Nationality
- Slovakia, Canada[1]structured public data sourceAndrej Karpathy — WikidataWikidataWikidata P27 lists Slovakia and Canada as countries of citizenship.CheckedOpen original source
- Occupations
- computer scientist; artificial intelligence researcher[1]structured public data sourceAndrej Karpathy — WikidataWikidataWikidata P106 lists computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher as occupations.CheckedOpen original source
- Official profile or website
- karpathy.ai[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiKarpathy’s personal website identifies itself as his official site.CheckedOpen original source
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Who is Andrej Karpathy?[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiKarpathy’s biography describes PhD research in deep learning and computer vision and his design and teaching of Stanford’s CS231n course.CheckedOpen original source
His published biography documents deep-learning research, computer vision work, and technical teaching, including Stanford’s CS231n course.
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History
His doctoral research at Stanford focused on convolutional and recurrent neural networks and their applications in computer vision and natural language processing.[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiThe biography dates his PhD to 2011–2015, describes its research focus, and identifies Stanford adviser Fei-Fei Li.CheckedOpen original source
He designed and was the primary instructor for Stanford’s CS231n deep-learning course.[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiThe biography states that he designed and primarily taught Stanford’s CS231n course.CheckedOpen original source
He joined OpenAI as a research scientist and founding member.[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiKarpathy’s biography identifies him as a research scientist and founding member at OpenAI from 2015 to 2017.CheckedOpen original source
He served as Tesla’s Director of AI and led the computer-vision team for Autopilot.[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiKarpathy’s biography describes his Tesla role from 2017 to 2022 and his work leading the Autopilot computer-vision team.CheckedOpen original source
He returned to OpenAI and built a team focused on midtraining and synthetic-data generation.[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiKarpathy’s biography records his return to OpenAI from 2023 to 2024 and the team’s focus.CheckedOpen original source
He began publishing educational videos about AI on his YouTube channel.[2]first-party sourceAndrej Karpathykarpathy.aiHis biography states that from 2024 he created AI educational videos in technical and general-audience tracks.CheckedOpen original source
He announced joining Anthropic; TechCrunch reported that he would work on pre-training research.[3]independent sourceOpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training teamTechCrunchTechCrunch reported on 19 May 2026 that Karpathy announced joining Anthropic and was starting on its pre-training team.CheckedOpen original source
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Sources
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- Andrej Karpathy — Wikidata
Wikidata · structured public data source
- Andrej Karpathy
karpathy.ai · first-party source
- OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
TechCrunch · independent source
- OpenAI — Wikidata
Wikidata · structured public data source
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