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#10ResearcherAI Education & Communication
Andrej Karpathy
Anthropic / Eureka Labs (paused)
Biography
OpenAI founding member and former Director of AI at Tesla. Joined Anthropic's pre-training team in May 2026, using Claude to accelerate pretraining research. Top AI educator on YouTube.
Key Influence
Built Tesla's AI vision stack. Top AI educator on YouTube (2M+ subscribers). nanoGPT democratized LLM training.
🗺️ In the Learning Roadmap
Andrej Karpathy · Neural Networks: Zero to Hero (LEGENDARY)PyTorch · The Deep Learning FrameworkThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs · Karpathy BlogRNNs, LSTMs & Sequence Modelskarpathy/char-rnn · Character-level RNN (classic)RNNs, LSTMs & Sequence ModelsAndrej Karpathy · Let's build GPT from scratchTransformers & Attention Mechanismkarpathy/nanoGPT · Build GPT from scratch (38K+ stars)Transformers & Attention Mechanismkarpathy/minGPT · Minimal GPT implementationTransformers & Attention MechanismAndrej Karpathy · Intro to Large Language Models (1hr)Large Language Models (LLMs) · GPT, BERT & BeyondKarpathy · Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT (3h31m)Large Language Models (LLMs) · GPT, BERT & Beyondkarpathy/nanochat · Full ChatGPT clone for ~$100Large Language Models (LLMs) · GPT, BERT & Beyond
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Constellation AI 150