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# Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy is a Slovakian-Canadian computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher. [1]

## Core facts

- **Entity type:** Person

- **Date of birth:** 23 October 1986 — [1] structured public data, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **Place of birth:** Bratislava — [1] structured public data, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **Nationality:** Slovakia, Canada — [1] structured public data, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **Occupations:** computer scientist; artificial intelligence researcher — [1] structured public data, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **Official profile or website:** [karpathy.ai](https://karpathy.ai/) — [2] first-party, checked 23 Sept 2026

## Who is Andrej Karpathy?

His published biography documents deep-learning research, computer vision work, and technical teaching, including Stanford’s CS231n course. — [2] first-party, checked 23 Sept 2026

## History

- **2011:** 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, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **2015:** He designed and was the primary instructor for Stanford’s CS231n deep-learning course. — [2] first-party, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **2015:** He joined OpenAI as a research scientist and founding member. — [2] first-party, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **2017:** He served as Tesla’s Director of AI and led the computer-vision team for Autopilot. — [2] first-party, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **2023:** He returned to OpenAI and built a team focused on midtraining and synthetic-data generation. — [2] first-party, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **2024:** He began publishing educational videos about AI on his YouTube channel. — [2] first-party, checked 23 Sept 2026

- **2026:** He announced joining Anthropic; TechCrunch reported that he would work on pre-training research. — [3] independent, checked 23 Sept 2026

## Relationships

- **founded:** [OpenAI](https://groundingwiki.com/en/organizations/openai/index.md) — [4] structured public data, checked 22 Sept 2026

## Sources
1. [Andrej Karpathy — Wikidata](https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q56037405)
   - Publisher: Wikidata
   - Type: structured public data
   - Checked: 23 Sept 2026
   - Evidence:
     - Definition: "Wikidata identifies Karpathy as Slovakian-Canadian and lists computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher as occupations."
     - Date of birth: "Wikidata P569 records Andrej Karpathy’s date of birth."
     - Place of birth: "Wikidata P19 identifies Bratislava as Andrej Karpathy’s place of birth."
     - Nationality: "Wikidata P27 lists Slovakia and Canada as countries of citizenship."
     - Occupations: "Wikidata P106 lists computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher as occupations."
2. [Andrej Karpathy](https://karpathy.ai/)
   - Publisher: karpathy.ai
   - Type: first-party
   - Checked: 23 Sept 2026
   - Evidence:
     - Official profile or website: "Karpathy’s personal website identifies itself as his official site."
     - Who is Andrej Karpathy?: "Karpathy’s biography describes PhD research in deep learning and computer vision and his design and teaching of Stanford’s CS231n course."
     - 2011: "The biography dates his PhD to 2011–2015, describes its research focus, and identifies Stanford adviser Fei-Fei Li."
     - 2015: "The biography states that he designed and primarily taught Stanford’s CS231n course."
     - 2015: "Karpathy’s biography identifies him as a research scientist and founding member at OpenAI from 2015 to 2017."
     - 2017: "Karpathy’s biography describes his Tesla role from 2017 to 2022 and his work leading the Autopilot computer-vision team."
     - 2023: "Karpathy’s biography records his return to OpenAI from 2023 to 2024 and the team’s focus."
     - 2024: "His biography states that from 2024 he created AI educational videos in technical and general-audience tracks."
3. [OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropics-pre-training-team)
   - Publisher: TechCrunch
   - Type: independent
   - Checked: 23 Sept 2026
   - Evidence:
     - 2026: "TechCrunch reported on 19 May 2026 that Karpathy announced joining Anthropic and was starting on its pre-training team."
4. [OpenAI — Wikidata](https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200)
   - Publisher: Wikidata
   - Type: structured public data
   - Checked: 22 Sept 2026
   - Evidence:
     - founded: "Wikidata P112 links OpenAI to Andrej Karpathy."

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