Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
Andrej Karpathy
Researcher
OpenAI founding member and former head of Tesla Autopilot AI. Paused his education startup Eureka Labs in May 2026 to join Anthropic's pretraining team, building a group that uses Claude to speed up the next Claude.
Known for Tesla Autopilot; nanoGPT and the Zero to Hero course
Works in
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May 2026 – nowAnthropic, Pretraining research
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Jul 2024 – May 2026Eureka Labs, Founder (paused)