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AI era (2012-present)
Andrej Karpathy
born 1986
Co-founded OpenAI; led Tesla autopilot vision; now Eureka Labs and prolific educator.
Contributions
- 01PhD at Stanford under Fei-Fei Li; co-founder of OpenAI in 2015.
- 02Led Tesla AI from 2017-2022, productionizing vision-only autonomous driving.
- 03YouTube and writing have become the canonical educational resource for the working LLM engineer.
Why it matters for the learning stack
Karpathy's neural-networks-from-scratch series and writing on the LLM stack are the practical entry point for most engineers entering the field today.