Andrej Karpathy
AI Researcher
Biography
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.
Career Timeline
Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision.
In 2006, Karpathy began posting videos on YouTube on his channel, badmephisto.
The course became one of the largest classes at Stanford, growing from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017.
On February 9, 2023, Karpathy announced he was returning to OpenAI.
In February 2025, Karpathy coined the term vibe coding to describe how AI tools allow hobbyists to construct apps and websites just by typing prompts.