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Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher who was a founding member of OpenAI and later served as Director of AI at Tesla, leading the Autopilot computer vision team from 2017 to 2022. He earned his PhD at Stanford under Fei-Fei Li and created CS 231n, which grew into the university's most popular deep learning course. In 2024 he founded Eureka Labs, an AI-native education platform, and in May 2026 he joined Anthropic to lead pretraining research.

Apps

autoresearch(https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch)

Andrej Karpathy's experiment: AI agents that autonomously run research on single-GPU nanochat training, proposing hyperparameter tweaks and summarizing findings.

AI AgentsOpen SourceResearch Agents92.0kbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
nanoGPT(github.com/karpathy/nanogpt)

A minimal, fast implementation for training and fine-tuning medium-sized GPT models from scratch. Features clean, readable code with just ~300 lines each for the training loop and model definition, making it easy to customize and experiment with.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure61.5kMITbuilt by karpathy3mo ago
nanochat(https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat)

Andrej Karpathy's full-stack ChatGPT-style training and inference recipe you can run end-to-end for $100 on a single 8xH100 node.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure56.6kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
LLM Council(https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council)

Andrej Karpathy's experiment: an ensemble of LLMs debating your hardest questions and arriving at a synthesized answer.

AI AgentsOpen SourceOrchestration23.2kbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
llm.c(https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c)

Andrej Karpathy's LLM training implementation in pure C/CUDA — small, readable, performant reference for understanding GPT training from the metal up.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure30.6kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
llama2.c(https://github.com/karpathy/llama2.c)

Andrej Karpathy's Llama 2 inference in one file of pure C — minimalist reference for understanding LLM inference end-to-end.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure19.8kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
minGPT(https://github.com/karpathy/mingpt)

Andrej Karpathy's minimal PyTorch re-implementation of GPT — ~300 lines of clean training code for understanding transformer language models.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure24.7kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
minbpe(https://github.com/karpathy/minbpe)

Andrej Karpathy's minimal, clean implementation of Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) — the tokenization algorithm used by GPT and most modern LLMs.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure10.6kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
micrograd(https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd)

Andrej Karpathy's tiny scalar-valued autograd engine and neural net library on top — PyTorch-style API in ~100 lines for teaching backprop.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education16.8kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
reader3(https://github.com/karpathy/reader3)

Andrej Karpathy's quick illustration of reading books together with LLMs — annotate, ask questions, discuss as you go.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education3.8kbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
rendergit(https://github.com/karpathy/rendergit)

Andrej Karpathy's tool that renders any git repo into a single static HTML page — perfect for human reading or feeding the whole codebase to an LLM.

Developer ToolsOpen SourceCLI Tools2.4kbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
HN Time Capsule(https://github.com/karpathy/hn-time-capsule)

Andrej Karpathy's project analyzing decade-old Hacker News discussions in hindsight using LLMs to score predictions and ideas.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure666built by karpathy2mo ago
makemore(https://github.com/karpathy/makemore)

Andrej Karpathy's autoregressive character-level language model for generating more things — names, words, anything — from a small training set.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education4.1kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
rustbpe(https://github.com/karpathy/rustbpe)

Fast BPE tokenizer training in Rust by Andrej Karpathy. The missing tiktoken training code.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure503MITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
Calorie(https://github.com/karpathy/calorie)

Super simple calorie counter web app — a vibe-coded daily tool from Andrej Karpathy.

Health & FitnessOpen SourceFitness161built by karpathy2mo ago

Intel

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero(https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero)

Andrej Karpathy's free video course building neural networks and language models from scratch in Python — from micrograd through nanoGPT.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education23.7kMITbuilt by karpathy2mo ago
Build nanoGPT(https://github.com/karpathy/build-nanogpt)

Andrej Karpathy's video lecture + code: build nanoGPT from scratch step by step, training a small GPT on Shakespeare and then OpenWebText.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education5.4kbuilt by karpathy2mo ago