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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- Hassabis Says AGI in Two to Three Years: What the WSJ Reports and What His Timeline History Shows →
On October 21, 2026 the Wall Street Journal reported that Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis expects AGI within two to three years, shortened from his earlier three-to-five-year view. We could not read the interview itself, so this post sets out what is confirmed, how his public timeline has moved, and what the number does and does not mean.
- Karpathy: "RL Is Working Now" as GPT-6.1 Sol Traces Go Viral →
A screenshot of GPT-6.1 Sol reasoning text, captioned "totally legible, nothing to worry about," drew a reply from Andrej Karpathy quoting his 2024 line that RL is done right when models stop speaking English. We separate the joke from what OpenAI's API returns and what the research says.
- ManimGX: A Rust GPU Engine That Lets Coding Agents Render Manim-Style Math Videos →
ManimGX from Academa gathered about 1,600 GitHub stars in under two weeks. It re-implements the Manim Python API on a Rust GPU core and targets coding agents that write animation scenes. Here is what it does, how to try it, and what the benchmark and license notes really say.
- Epic Says Its New Launcher Is "Vibe Coded": Linux Support and a Faster-Than-Steam Claim →
Epic Games released a preview of a rebuilt Epic Games Launcher for Windows, Mac and Linux and said in its own blog post that it was vibe coded. Epic claims it starts faster and reaches the store 46 percent faster than Steam; outlets have not yet tested that. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.
- How to Use ASD-STE100 With AI: A Practical Guide to Plain, Unambiguous Writing →
A practical, evergreen guide to using ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English with AI coding agents: three ways to apply it (skill, one-line prompt, AGENTS.md rules), the rules that matter most, rewrite recipes for docs, errors and incident reports, a small script to check your output, and how to fix common problems.