Andrej Karpathy
Pre-training researcher, Anthropic (Eureka Labs paused) · as of 2026-10-04 · source
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OpenAI founding member, former Tesla AI director and influential educator who coined 'vibe coding'; joined Anthropic's pre-training team in May 2026.
Role changes
- 2026-05-19 Joined Anthropic's pre-training team, pausing his education startup Eureka Labs source
News mentioning Andrej Karpathy (4)
- Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team to use Claude to speed up pre-training research ★★★
On May 19, 2026 Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI co-founder, former Tesla AI director, creator of "vibe coding") announced on X that he had joined Anthropic. He works in pre-training under team lead Nick Joseph and is starting a team that uses Claude to accelerate pre-training research, pausing (not…
- Google launches Gemini 3 ★★★★★
Google released Gemini 3 Pro, which topped LMArena with a 1501 Elo and led many reasoning and multimodal benchmarks, shipping on day one across Search, the Gemini app and a new agentic IDE, Google Antigravity.
- Andrej Karpathy coins "vibe coding" ★★★
On Feb 2, 2025 Andrej Karpathy posted on X: 'There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.' He described building projects by talking to Cursor Composer (with Claude Sonnet) and accepting changes…
- Andrej Karpathy's essay "Software 2.0": neural networks as a new way to write software ★★★
On Nov 11, 2017 Andrej Karpathy, then Tesla's director of AI, published "Software 2.0" on Medium. It argues that neural networks are not just another classifier but a new software stack: humans specify goals and curate datasets, and optimization writes the program (the weights). The framing shaped…
Posts (6)
- Beyond the pelican test: Opus 5 renders the Lord of the Rings opening in Three.js original ↗ Andrej Karpathy @karpathy · x · 2026-08-02
Karpathy's most-liked post of summer 2026 (~29K likes) reframed how people informally test frontier models, using Claude Opus 5 with a 1M-token budget. - Karpathy: 'Personal update: I've joined Anthropic.' original ↗ Andrej Karpathy @karpathy · x · 2026-05-19
First-hand announcement of the most visible AI talent move of spring 2026; ~28M views, ~149K likes (fxtwitter, Oct 4, 2026). - Andrej Karpathy original ↗ Andrej Karpathy @karpathy · x · 2025-11-18
Cited as a source by: 012-gemini-3-refuses-to-believe-it-is-2025 - Andrej Karpathy original ↗ Andrej Karpathy @karpathy · x · 2025-11-18
Cited as a source by: 2025-11-18-gemini-3, 012-gemini-3-refuses-to-believe-it-is-2025 - Andrej Karpathy original ↗ Andrej Karpathy @karpathy · x · 2025-02-02
Cited as a source by: 2025-02-02-karpathy-vibe-coding - Andrej Karpathy original ↗ Andrej Karpathy @karpathy · x · 2017-11-11
Cited as a source by: 2017-11-11-karpathy-software-2-0
Videos (1)
- I Tested Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Astra on 12 Real Use Cases Nate Herk | AI Automation · 2026-09-24
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