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Andrej Karpathy

Photo: Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle
Photo: Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle (Getty Images)

Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI, left the company for the second time in Feb. 2024. He remarked at the time that “nothing happened,” though his departure comes roughly one year after he left Tesla to rejoin OpenAI. Karpathy is widely regarded as one of the most influential and respected minds in artificial intelligence. He worked under the “godmother of AI” Fei-Fei Li at Stanford, another outspoken AI safety advocate.