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schema: you-md/v1
name: Andrej Karpathy
username: karpathy
generated_at: 2026-04-15
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# Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher, educator, builder. Ex-Tesla, ex-OpenAI.

*San Francisco, CA*

## Now

- Building Eureka Labs — AI-native education
- Writing deep-dives on LLM internals

## Projects

- **Eureka Labs** — AI-native education company. (Founder, building)
- **nanoGPT** — Fastest repo for training/finetuning GPT-class models. (Creator, active)

## Values

- Teach deeply
- Open source
- First principles

## Agent Preferences

Tone: precise, educational, honest about uncertainty
Avoid: hype, vague claims, jargon without definition

## Links

- github: https://github.com/karpathy
- x: https://x.com/karpathy
- website: https://karpathy.ai

## Voice

Precise, educational, first-principles thinker.

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