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Entity	Property	Value	As Of
Andrej Karpathy	Notable For	Former Director of AI at Tesla, former OpenAI researcher; founded Eureka Labs; influential AI educator and researcher	—
Andrej Karpathy	Birth Year	1986	—
Andrej Karpathy	Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy	—

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# Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy

Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)

| Andrej Karpathy |
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| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Andrej_Karpathy%2C_OpenAI.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andrej_Karpathy,_OpenAI.png)<br>Karpathy at Stanford in 2016 |
| Born | Andrej Karpathy<br> (1986-10-23) 23 October 1986 (age39)<br>[Bratislava](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava "Bratislava"), [Czechoslovakia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia "Czechoslovakia") (now Slovakia) |
| Almamater | - [University of Toronto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto "University of Toronto") ( [BS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science "Bachelor of Science"))<br>- [University of British Columbia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia "University of British Columbia") ( [MS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science "Master of Science"))<br>- [Stanford University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University "Stanford University") ( [PhD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy "Doctor of Philosophy")) |
| Awards | [Innovators Under 35](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovators_Under_35 "Innovators Under 35") (2020)<br>TIME100 Most Influential People in AI (2024)[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy#cite_note-1) |
| **Scientific career** |
| Fields | [Machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning")<br>[Computer vision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision "Computer vision")<br>[Artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence")[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy#cite_note-gs-2) |
| Institutions | - [OpenAI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI "OpenAI") (2015–2017, 2023-2024)<br>- [Tesla, Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc. "Tesla, Inc.") (2017–2022) |
| [Thesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis "Thesis") | _[Connecting Images and Natural Language](https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11849345)_(2016) |
| [Doctoral advisor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctoral_advisor "Doctoral advisor") | [Fei-Fei Li](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li "Fei-Fei Li") |
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| Website | [karpathy.ai](https://karpathy.ai/)[![Edit this at Wikidata](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56037405#P856 "Edit this at Wikidata") |

**Andrej Karpathy** (born 23 October 1986[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy#cite_note-3)) is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy#cite_note-:3-4), who co-founded and formerly worked at [OpenAI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI "OpenAI"),[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy#cite_note-5)[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy#cite_note-6)[\[7\]](https://

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