Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher and educator. Founding member of OpenAI, former Director of AI at Tesla, later rejoined OpenAI. Known for micrograd, nanoGPT, the “Zero to Hero” neural-network tutorial series, and influential essays on LLMs/AGI (e.g. “LLM OS”).

AI Scientist Work

• autoresearch — repo where AI agents autonomously run research on single-GPU nanochat training, a hands-on take on automated AI research. — https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch

Related Pages

• ai-scientist — hub page for autonomous AI research systems (autoresearch listed there)
• sakana-ai — the lab whose AI Scientist pipeline is the best-known system in the same space