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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- 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.
- What Is Recurrent Depth? AI Reasoning You Cannot Read →
Recurrent depth is a technique where a model reuses a block of layers multiple times on the same hidden state instead of externalizing extra reasoning as chain-of-thought text. It's efficient and it works — but it moves reasoning into a space nobody can read, which is exactly the concern researchers raised about OpenAI's Astra.
- Garry Tan Ships GBrain Evals — But Who Grades the Grader? →
Y Combinator's Garry Tan published new evals for GBrain, his open-source agent-memory layer, on August 31, 2026 — claiming SOTA retrieval without an LLM in the loop. One reply asks the question the whole post is built around: the eval set and the retrieval layer share an author, so what does GBrain score on a benchmark nobody else wrote?
- img2threejs v1.5.1: One Photo to a Rigged, Animated Three.js Fighter →
img2threejs v1.5.1 ships the Character Update: a 2D reference image becomes a rigged, animated Three.js fighter with measured punch VFX, sweat particles, and 19 combat clips — pure TypeScript in the browser, no Blender workflow. explainx.ai breaks down the GLB-measurement pipeline, how it differs from neural mesh tools, and what web-game builders should steal.
- TIME100 AI 2026: the omissions are the editorial thesis →
TIME published the 2026 TIME100 AI on August 27 and the replies filled with the same complaint: no Jensen Huang, no Demis Hassabis, no Karpathy, but Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck made it. Read the list carefully and the pattern is deliberate — Nvidia's seat went to its head of sustainability. explainx.ai breaks down what TIME actually measured and which of your daily tools have their makers on the list.