Andrej Karpathy, a Founding Member of OpenAI, Resigns from the Company
Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, said on social media platform X that he had left the Microsoft-backed company on Monday.
The news marks a significant departure from OpenAI, one of the top labs competing to develop increasingly capable artificial intelligence.
“My immediate plan is to work on my personal projects and see what happens,” Karpathy said on Tuesday.
Karpathy, who joined OpenAI in his second stint last year, was previously a senior director of artificial intelligence at Tesla, where he played a key role in developing the electric car maker’s AI and driver assistance technology.
Karpathy had studied under prominent Stanford AI researcher Fei-Fei Li and joined OpenAI as one of its earliest employees before moving to Tesla. He recently talked about the idea of artificial intelligence, known as large language models that act as a new kind of computer operating system.
