Andrej Karpathy, born on October 23, 1986, is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist prominent in the field of AI. He is known for his expertise in deep learning and computer vision, and for making complex AI concepts accessible through his educational initiatives. Karpathy is the founder of Eureka Labs, an organization focused on modernizing education using AI.
Karpathy's career includes significant roles at the forefront of AI development. He was a founding member of OpenAI from 2015 to 2017 and returned to the organization in 2023 to build a team focused on midtraining and synthetic data generation. From 2017 to 2022, he served as the Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team for Tesla Autopilot. Karpathy also designed and taught Stanford's first deep learning course, CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition, which became one of the university's most popular classes. In February 2026, Karpathy launched microGPT, an experimental project distilling the workings of a generative pre-trained transformer into a minimal Python file.
