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Andrej Karpathy

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Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator who was a founding member of OpenAI and later Tesla's Director of AI, where he led computer vision for Autopilot. He earned his PhD at Stanford under Fei-Fei Li and designed CS231n, Stanford's first deep learning course. In 2024 he founded Eureka Labs, an AI-native education company, and in May 2026 he joined Anthropic to lead a pretraining research team.

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Tools

autoresearch(github.com/karpathy/autoresearch)

Experiment in which AI agents autonomously research single-GPU nanochat training, proposing hyperparameter tweaks.

AI AgentsOpen SourceResearch Agents★ 98.4kbuilt by karpathy
nanoGPT(github.com/karpathy/nanogpt)

Minimal codebase for training and fine-tuning medium-sized GPT models, with a training loop of roughly 300 lines.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 64.0kMITbuilt by karpathy
nanochat(github.com/karpathy/nanochat)

Full-stack ChatGPT-style training and inference recipe that runs end to end on a single 8xH100 node.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 58.9kMITbuilt by karpathy
micrograd(github.com/karpathy/micrograd)

Karpathy's tiny scalar autograd engine with a PyTorch-style neural net API, built for teaching backpropagation.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education★ 18.0kMITbuilt by karpathy
LLM Council(github.com/karpathy/llm-council)

Karpathy experiment where an ensemble of LLMs debates a question and arrives at a synthesized answer.

AI AgentsOpen SourceOrchestration★ 25.8kbuilt by karpathy
llm.c(github.com/karpathy/llm.c)

Karpathy's GPT training implementation in plain C and CUDA, kept small and readable as a reference from the metal up.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 31.2kMITbuilt by karpathy
llama2.c(github.com/karpathy/llama2.c)

Runs Llama 2 inference in a single file of pure C, serving as a minimalist reference for how LLM inference works.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 20.2kMITbuilt by karpathy
minGPT(github.com/karpathy/mingpt)

Minimal PyTorch re-implementation of GPT in about 300 lines, written for understanding transformer language models.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 25.0kMITbuilt by karpathy
minbpe(github.com/karpathy/minbpe)

Minimal, clean implementation of the Byte Pair Encoding tokenization algorithm used by GPT and most modern LLMs.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 10.8kMITbuilt by karpathy
reader3(github.com/karpathy/reader3)

Python tool from Andrej Karpathy for reading books together with LLMs, annotating and asking questions along the way.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education★ 3.9kbuilt by karpathy
rendergit(github.com/karpathy/rendergit)

Renders any git repository into a single static HTML page for human reading or pasting into an LLM.

Developer ToolsOpen SourceCLI Tools★ 2.5kbuilt by karpathy
HN Time Capsule(github.com/karpathy/hn-time-capsule)

Uses LLMs to revisit decade-old Hacker News discussions and score how their predictions and ideas held up.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 686built by karpathy
makemore(github.com/karpathy/makemore)

Character-level autoregressive language model that generates new names or words from a small training set.

EducationOpen SourceCoding Education★ 4.5kMITbuilt by karpathy
rustbpe(github.com/karpathy/rustbpe)

Rust implementation of BPE tokenizer training by Andrej Karpathy, supplying the training code tiktoken lacks.

AI ToolsOpen SourceLLM Infrastructure★ 523MITbuilt by karpathy
Calorie(github.com/karpathy/calorie)

Simple web page for logging daily calories, built as a personal tool by Andrej Karpathy.

Health & FitnessOpen SourceFitness★ 173built by karpathy

Intel

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero(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 Education★ 24.1kMITbuilt by karpathy
Build nanoGPT(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 Education★ 5.5kbuilt by karpathy

Karpathy argues agents will take a decade to mature, framing them as interns that cannot yet be trusted with real work, and discusses the capability gaps in tools like Claude and Codex that hold them back.

AI Agents

Andrej Karpathy sketches a funnel of LLM experience, from billions with minimal contact to a few thousand with internal frontier access, and attributes the widening perception gap to problem ambition, jagged RL-shaped capability, and tiered access.

AI Tools

Andrej Karpathy argues that software is undergoing a second fundamental shift in a few years, with LLMs creating a new programming paradigm and a large amount of software to write and rewrite.

AI Tools