Andrej Karpathy - Pre-training Lead @ Anthropic

Overview

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Primary Job Title Pre-training Lead
Primary Organization
Anthropic

Location Palo Alto, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast
Gender Male

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Website karpathy.ai
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Andrej Karpathy was the Sr. Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot. He attended the University of Toronto and had his Master's degree at the University of British Columbia.

Personal Investments

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Andrej Karpathy

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investments. Their latest investment was

Venture Round - Decart

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Decart

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Decart	—	Venture Round - Decart	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Standard Intelligence	—	Series A - Standard Intelligence	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	MatX	—	Series B - MatX	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Simile	—	Series A - Simile	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Flapping Airplanes	—	Seed Round - Flapping Airplanes	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Inception	—	Seed Round - Inception	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Blueprint Bryan Johnson	—	Angel Round - Blueprint Bryan Johnson	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Brain Co.	—	Series A - Brain Co.	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Prime Intellect	—	Seed Round - Prime Intellect	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Lambda	—	Series D - Lambda	obfuscated obfuscation

Exits

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Andrej Karpathy

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Andrej Karpathy

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exits. Their most notable exits are

Replicate

Dreamer

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Class Companion

Replicate Replicate provides a platform for open source machine learning models that enables users to run and refine open-source models with an API.
Dreamer Dreamer is a platform for building and deploying personalized AI agents.
Class Companion Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

Jobs

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Andrej Karpathy

has

current jobs as

Pre-training Lead

Anthropic

and

Founder

Eureka Labs

. Additionally,

Andrej Karpathy

has had

past jobs including

Senior Director of Artifical Intelligence

Tesla

Anthropic Pre-training LeadMay 2026
Eureka Labs Founder2024

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Tesla	Senior Director of Artifical Intelligence	Jun 2017	Jul 2022
Tesla	Director of Artificial Intelligence	Jun 2017	Jan 2019
Stanford University	PhD student	Sep 2011	Sep 2016
OpenAI	Research Scientist and Founding Member	2011	2015
Tesla	Sr Director	Jun 2017	—

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