Andrej Karpathy career timeline

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Andrej Karpathy earned his PhD at Stanford working with Fei-Fei Li. He co-created CS231n, a course that taught an entire generation deep learning. As a founding member of OpenAI, he later departed to lead autopilot AI at Tesla under Elon. He returned to OpenAI briefly before leaving again to start an education lab. Millions learned to build systems from scratch through his teaching. His one-hour lecture explaining how AI systems actually work quietly became the most shared explainer in the field. When he joked about "vibe coding", the industry adopted the term within weeks. Most people assumed Andrej Karpathy would remain independent. In May 2026, he joined Anthropic. This move was not about sales but to run pre-training research. He plans to build a team where Claude helps train the next Claude. The internet's teacher is returning to the frontier. This represents a different game.