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Andrej Karpathy

Founder, Eureka Labs · 0 appearances on the record.

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Andrej Karpathy was a founding member of OpenAI and the former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the computer vision team for Autopilot. He also founded the AI-native education platform Eureka Labs and is known for creating open-source AI education projects like nanoGPT.

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Everything Andrej Karpathy said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Karpathy says Software 3.0 eliminates apps via direct neural generation
“The software three-point paradigm is a lot more kind of raw. It just, neural network is doing more and more of the work, and your prompt or context is just the image, and the output is an image, and there's no need to have any of the app in between.”
Andrej Karpathy May 5, 2026 ▶ 8:38 Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN

The other half of the tape: Andrej Karpathy's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 84 times in 45 episodes on TBPN. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most John Coogan 25Jordi Hays 4Tyler Cosgrove 1Satya Nadella 1Lulu Cheng Meservey 1Guillermo Rauch 1Dylan Patel 1Drew Houston 1

Statements about Andrej Karpathy, by other people (4)

Assertion Supported
Coogan: Andrej Karpathy broke AI consensus by projecting a decade of agents
“Even though he's worked at OpenAI, even though he's worked at Tesla, he broke rank, he went on the Dwarkesh Patel show, and said, you know what, I think we're more in a decade of agents. I think AGI might not be right around the corner. He took a contrarian st…”
John Coogan Nov 22, 2025 ▶ 11:11 The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
Opinion
Coogan: Andrej Karpathy Basically Invented Tesla Self-Driving
“It's a glowing review of Tesla self-driving from the man who basically invented it and started the whole Sort of the whole process.”
John Coogan Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 27:36 Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
Insight
Nadella: Improving AI reliability nines progresses linearly or sublinearly
“That's the nines problem. Right? That is, each nine is maybe linear, even sublinear problem. Right? In terms of rate of progress.”
Satya Nadella Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 8:10 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Karpathy describes neural computers rendering dynamic UIs via diffusion
“Karpathy describes it as, imagine a device that takes raw video or audio into basically what's a neural net and uses diffusion to render a UI that's unique for that moment.”
John Coogan May 5, 2026 ▶ 2:28 Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN

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2026 34 mentions in 19 episodes 2 per episode
2025 44 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
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Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN May 5, 2026 1m clip played
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