OpenAI Researcher Andrej Karpathy Leaves Firm

One of the original members of OpenAI and an artificial intelligence researcher, Andrej Karpathy, announced his departure from the Microsoft-backed business on Monday in a post on social media platform X.

The announcement is a dramatic shift from OpenAI, one of the leading labs vying to create artificial intelligence with ever-increasing capabilities.

Karpathy wrote in the post on Tuesday, “My immediate plan is to work on my personal projects and see what happens.”

Karpathy, who made his second stint at OpenAI last year, was once a senior director for AI at Tesla.

Prior to joining Tesla, Karpathy was a staff member of OpenAI and had trained under renowned Stanford AI scientist Fei-Fei Li.

He recently discussed the concept of AI in which big language models function as a novel form of operating system for computers.