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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- Opus 5 Built a Rocket League Clone — Then Played It →
Hours after Claude Opus 5 launched, am.will shipped a browser Rocket Arena clone with reflections, Rapier physics, and bots — then filmed Opus playing the game itself. explainx.ai breaks down the demo, stack, and what it means.
- How Do We Stop Vibe Coding? Trust Beyond Prompt Rituals →
Karpathy hasn’t typed a line since Dec 2025 — and practitioners fear endless slop. explainx.ai maps Klos’s trust thesis, why Spec Kit/OpenSpec/Kiro fall short, and the CodeSpeak vs Scryer bets for intent-first engineering.
- Open Weights Letter: OpenAI + Google Join — 70+ Signers →
The July 24 open-weights letter started at 25 names. The live Microsoft roster now tops 70 — including OpenAI, Google, Cisco, GitHub, AMD, Cloudflare, and SpaceX. Anthropic remains off. explainx.ai updates the coalition and the fight.
- Anthropic IPO Path 2026: S-1, Banker Meetings, and What Changes for Builders →
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 on June 1 and closed Series H at $965B on May 28. By July 15, bankers were lining up institutional meetings — reports point to a possible October 2026 listing, but Anthropic has not confirmed a date. explainx.ai explains what changes for Claude Code, Fable, API buyers, and what an IPO does not guarantee.
- Claude Memory Heist: web_fetch Exfiltrated PII From Claude.ai Memory →
Security researcher Ayush Paul proved that Claude.ai's memory plus web browsing could silently exfiltrate personal data through GET-only URL paths — while the user only asked about a coffee shop. Anthropic patched web_fetch link following; the broader agent-memory risk remains.
- Google AI Scientist at ICML 2026: ScientistOne, Chain-of-Evidence, and the End-to-End Research Pipeline →