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Andrej Karpathy

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Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

🇸🇰🇨🇦 Slovak-Canadian

Karpathy helped establish modern vision-language research, led Tesla's shift toward neural networks for camera-based driving, and built influential courses and tutorials that teach people to create language models from first principles. His work bridges frontier engineering with unusually accessible technical education.

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Background

Current role
Member of Technical Staff 2026-present
Previously
2023-2024Research Scientist,
2017-2022Director of Artificial Intelligence,
2015-2017Founding member, Research Scientist,
Born1986
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2679,46477,20074,935Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
79,464citations as of Jun 15, '26+4,529 since Aug 25, '25
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