AI researcher and educator
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator, a founding member of OpenAI, and a former director of AI at Tesla working on computer vision.
About Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator whose public teaching covers neural networks and large language models. His educational videos include both technical lessons on building models and introductions for a general audience.
He was a founding member and research scientist at OpenAI, led Tesla's AI and computer vision work from 2017 to 2022, and returned to OpenAI in 2023 to work on midtraining and synthetic data. During his PhD at Stanford, he designed and taught the CS231n course on deep learning for visual recognition.
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- Two More Researchers Quit Anthropic and Google Over AI Safety Fears →
Joe Benton, who led a safety research team at Anthropic, and Josh Engels, an AI safety researcher at Google DeepMind, both resigned within days of each other in September 2026, telling NBC News "there are no adults in the room." They join METR. Here's what's confirmed, how it differs from the Jacob Coxon resignation days earlier, and what it does and doesn't mean for anyone building on these labs' models.
- Addy Osmani Joins Anthropic to Work on Claude Code →
Addy Osmani, the longtime Google Chrome engineer and widely-read web performance and developer-tools educator, announced on September 8, 2026 that he's joined Anthropic to work on Claude Code. Here's his background, why the hire is notable, and what it might signal about Claude Code's direction.
- Supermemory Launches Learner-1 for Continual Agent Learning →
Supermemory announced learner-1 on September 8, 2026, framed as a step toward continual learning for AI agents. The announcement drew immediate pushback for vagueness — "what actually is learner-1?" was the top reply. Here's what's confirmed, what isn't, and how it fits next to other 2026 agent-memory approaches.
- GPT-6 Astra Reportedly Beat Portal and Wrote a Bach Chorale — Unverified →
A viral X essay from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross claims GPT-6 Astra cleared Portal without help, procedurally grew a three.js forest with 3,808 trees, and composed a Bach-style chorale with a correctly resolved passing tone. No transcripts, playthrough video, or score accompany any of the three claims. Here's why the grouping matters more than any single number, and why builders should read this as a signal for creative tooling, not general capability.
- Tencent Open-Sources TeamAI-CLI: Git-Based Team Skills for Agents →
Tencent used TeamAI-CLI internally since March 2026, then open-sourced it on September 7. It puts a team's skills, rules, and docs in one git repo, merges land on everyone's next agent session automatically, and each learning earns a confidence score from real usage. Here's what shipped and how it compares to other team-memory tools.