
Andrej Karpathy
PersonHeard in 4 episodes across 4 shows since Oct 2022
Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-born AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded OpenAI and served as the Director of AI at Tesla. He is currently the founder of Eureka Labs, where he focuses on building an AI-native education platform, and is well-known for his educational content on deep learning and neural networks.
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What Andrej Karpathy has said on podcasts
78 statements
Large neural networks trained on complex problems exhibit surprising emergent behaviors.
“you definitely do get very surprising emergent behaviors out of these neural nets when they're large enough and trained on complicated enough problems”
Open the episode · #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGIListen at 7:04
Sufficiently trained GPT models can solve problems through arbitrary prompting.
“once you train these on a large enough data set, you can basically prompt these neural nets in arbitrary ways and you can ask them to solve problems, and they will”
Open the episode · #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGIListen at 10:00
There should be many technological societies elsewhere in space.
“the more I study it, the more I think that there should be quite a lot”
Open the episode · #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGIListen at 16:46
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Episodes
4 episodes featuring Andrej Karpathy, newest first
- Aug 27, 2026
Cursor bets product focus can outrun tech giantsThe a16z ShowAug 27, 2026 - Aug 11, 2026
Expertise, not AI access, becomes marketers’ real moatFinding Peak with Ryan HanleyAug 11, 2026 - Dec 23, 2025
Post-training and reinforcement learning emerge as the new AI frontierDwarkesh PodcastDec 23, 2025 - Oct 29, 2022
Andrej Karpathy maps the vision-first path to self-driving and humanoid roboticsLex Fridman PodcastOct 29, 2022Guest