Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy

Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher (born 1986)

Andrej Karpathy 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.

OpenAI co-founder joins Anthropic

OpenAI co-founder joins Anthropic AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI to join rival startup Anthropic's research team.