Andrej Karpathy 🇸🇰 🇨🇦
AI researcher and educator working on frontier-model pre-training at Anthropic; formerly a founding research scientist at OpenAI and Director of AI at Tesla.
Anthropic
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- Toward pressure
- +0.22
- Away pressure
- −0.12
- Net attributed pressure
- +0.11
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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to accelerate frontier-model pre-training
Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic's pre-training team and said he would build a group using Claude to accelerate pre-training research, adding senior capacity to a frontier lab.
Karpathy demonstrates an autonomous loop for model-training research
Andrej Karpathy described AutoResearch, a constrained single-GPU system in which an AI agent independently edits LLM training code, runs timed experiments, measures validation results, retains improvements, and repeats overnight. The project provides practical evidence that parts of model R&D can already be automated, while remaining far from frontier-scale recursive improvement.
Karpathy argues capable AI agents remain about a decade away
In a full interview, Andrej Karpathy forecast that employee-like agents and AGI remain roughly a decade away, citing absent continual learning, limited multimodality, weak computer use, and other cognitive deficits that prevent current systems from reliably replacing human workers.