Karpathy says Software 3.0 eliminates apps via direct neural generation
Andrej Karpathy · Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN · May 5, 2026 · at 8:38
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Speaking at Sequoia AI Ascent, Andrej Karpathy explains how Software 3.0 bypasses bespoke software apps by letting foundation models generate visual output directly.
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“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.”
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