Andrej Karpathy, a widely respected research scientist, today announced his retirement from OpenAI. This is the second time Karpathy has left a top AI company, and he said his departure was not due to any incident, issue or drama.
Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI, left in 2017 to join Tesla. He left Tesla where he led the Autopilot team in 2022, and almost he returned to OpenAI. one year ago. Karpathy also has a huge following on social media and his YouTube, where he posts thought-provoking writing about the emerging universe and videos explaining the inner workings of AI.
“Hello everyone, yes, I left OpenAI yesterday. First of all, nothing “happened” and is not the result of any particular event, issue, or drama (although conspiracy theories are pretty funny, so… Please keep it up :),” Karpathy said.
“It's actually been great working at OpenAI over the past year. The team is really strong, the people are great, the roadmap is really exciting, and there's a lot we're all looking forward to. I think. My immediate plan is to work on some personal projects and see what happens. If you've been following me for a while, you might have an idea of what that's like. I don’t know.”
Cartofati's departure, first reported by The Information, follows a tumultuous year for OpenAI, which saw Sam Altman temporarily ousted as CEO and then reinstated in a high-profile week. The company told TechCrunch that Karpathy's responsibilities have been transferred to another researcher, without disclosing that researcher's name.
“Andrei is leaving to pursue personal projects. We deeply appreciate his contribution and wish him the best. His responsibilities will be passed on to a senior researcher who will work closely with Andrei. “The spokesperson said in a statement.
Karpathy's X bio has now been changed, but it now reads “Building things like JARVIS at @OpenAI,” indicating that he is working internally on projects related to AI assistants. You can see.
Earlier this year he explained The rationale behind writing this. He said he wanted to write a term to describe useful conversational AI.
“I name JARVIS, just in general terms, as one of my favorite general expressions of AI: useful, conversational, and powerful e/ia automation. Evil and Entropy “It's aid for,” he said.