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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- WorldClaw: Tencent Built a 3D Open-World Generator on Claude Opus 4.8 →
Tencent Hunyuan announced WorldClaw on August 11, 2026 — text prompts to large-scale, editable, game-ready 3D worlds. The buried lede in the paper: the "model" is an agentic harness driving Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-Image-2, SAM3, SAM3D and Hunyuan3D through agent skills and BlenderMCP.
- Jeff Dean Leaves Google for Discovery Loop as Demis Hassabis Steps Back at Google DeepMind (August 2026) →
Google and Alphabet announced a major AI leadership shakeup on August 5-6, 2026: Demis Hassabis moves to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, Koray Kavukcuoglu becomes SVP of Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean plus Sanjay Ghemawat leave after 27 years to found Discovery Loop with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. explainx.ai breaks down who runs what now, what Discovery Loop is building, and how markets reacted.
- Mind Lab Macaron-V1: Continual Learning via LoRA, Not Fine-Tuning →
Mind Lab, a startup founded by FireAct co-author Andrew Chen, just shipped Macaron-V1 — two models that add continual learning through LoRA adapters layered on frozen base weights rather than retraining from scratch. It scored state-of-the-art on 6 of 12 benchmarks and its preview reportedly hit $10 million ARR in two weeks. Here is how the architecture works, why it differs from fine-tuning and agent-memory approaches, and what to verify before treating the claims as settled.
- Dario Amodei Worries New Anthropic Hires Are Chasing Pay, Not Mission →
A source told Axios that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is increasingly concerned new hires are joining for compensation rather than the company's AI safety mission. Anthropic pays up to $400K for marketing roles and $1.3M for staff engineers — numbers that make the concern almost self-inflicted.
- TencentDB Agent Memory v2: Team Hub for Chat, Skills, Wiki, CodeGraph →
August 2026: TencentDB Agent Memory hit v2.0.0 — a MIT team memory hub that turns conversations, docs, and code into governed assets Agents can equip. explainx.ai maps the four asset types, L0–L3 layers, PersonaMem gains, and how it compares to Karpathy-style wikis and one-off RAG.