Andrej Karpathy
The Great Explainer
nanoGPT, micrograd, llm.c, and teaching the whole internet
Rating
92Impact score
Domains
Neural networksTeachingOpen source
Scouting report
Founding member of OpenAI, then director of AI at Tesla, but the reason he is on this card is the teaching: char-rnn, CS231n, micrograd, nanoGPT, llm.c and the Zero to Hero series, all free, all readable. He has probably taught more working engineers how a transformer actually works than every university course combined.
Curator’s note
The openness score is not a typo. Nobody else in this set is close.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Andrej Karpathy by Gladwin Analytics, licensed CC BY 3.0.
Sources
- 01Andrej Karpathy en.wikipedia.org
- 02nanoGPT github.com
- 03Neural Networks: Zero to Hero karpathy.ai