Former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy launches AI education start-up.
Takeaway Points
- Former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy launches an AI education start-up.
- The aim is to help teach students through generative AI.
- Karpathy explained that EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of his passion in both AI and education over 2 decades.
Andrej Karpathy Launches an AI Education Firm
Andrej Karpathy, former Director of AI at Tesla and Co-founder of OpenAI, on Tuesday said that he is starting an AI education firm called Eureka Labs.
The aim is to help teach students through generative AI and help people learn anything.
Karpathy said that “Our first product will be the world’s obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together.”
Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research replied to the comment of Andrej, congratulating him on the start-up education and said that Karpathy has passion for AI.
“Congrats! AI is going to have a huge impact on education & I know it’s something you’re passionate about (seeing how you organized cs231n years ago when I gave a guest lecture it was clear you put lots of thought into the best way to teach people different kinds of material),” Jeff said.
Karpathy explained that EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of his passion in both AI and education over 2 decades. That his interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik’s cubes to starting CS231n at Stanford, to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series. While my work in AI took me from academic research at Stanford to real-world products at Tesla and AGI research at OpenAI. All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my “real job”, so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time.
About Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy is a computer scientist born on Oct 23, 1986. He worked as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla and also helped to co-found OpenAI.
He completed his education at University of Toronto in 2009 where he studied Computer Science and Physics bachelor’s degrees, his master’s degree at University of British Columbia in 2011 and received a PhD from Stanford University in 2015.
Karpathy organized the first deep learning course at Stanford, CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition. He was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 for 2020.
Andrej Karpathy’s launch of an AI education firm marks a significant leap forward in the realm of artificial intelligence learning. Leveraging his extensive experience from OpenAI, Karpathy aims to democratize AI knowledge, making it accessible and impactful for learners worldwide. Amidst increasing demand for AI proficiency, his initiative promises to equip aspiring professionals worldwide with essential resources and profound insights, shaping the future of AI education.
