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OpenAI创始研究员Andrej Karpathy，离职了——又一次。
Andrej Karpathy本人在X上发布了这一消息：
I left OpenAI yesterday.
First of all, nothing "happens", which is not the result of any particular event, problem, or drama (but go ahead and talk about conspiracy theories, because they are very interesting).
Actually, the year spent at OpenAI has been really great – the team is very strong, the staff is great, the roadmap is very exciting, and I think we all have a lot to look forward to.
My current plan is to work on my personal project and see what happens.
Andrej Karpathy did not specify his next steps, but commented:
I started the next chapter two days ago.
However, as the former AI director of Tesla, some netizens turned on the summoning mode:
Back to Tesla!
As for the specific "next chapter", LeCun and the others speculated on the large language model system:
This speculation is not unfounded, as Andrej Karpathy has previously raised the following LLM OS:
The second exodus from OpenAI
其实Andrej Karpathy离职OpenAI并非是第一次。
As early as when he graduated from Stanford, he joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2016 and worked there for 1 year and 6 months.
Later, Andrej Karpathy was poached by Musk, joined Tesla, and worked his way up to the head of AI, reporting directly to Musk.
Andrej Karpathy回归OpenAI是在2023年的2月，当时Sam Altman也发推文表示欢迎：
Welcome Back！
Before that, during the gap period of nearly half a year, Andrej Karpathy tried to record online classes and do open source projects at home, and was still rooted in the field of AI.
关于Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy1986年出生于捷克斯洛伐克。
At the age of 15, he immigrated to Toronto, Canada, with his family, when Jeffry Hinton, the godfather of deep learning, fled to the University of Toronto.
Andrej was also fortunate enough to attend the University of Toronto, graduating in 2009 with a degree in Computer Science and Physics.
He then attended the University of British Columbia, majoring in computer science, and received his master's degree in 2011.
After that, he went to Stanford to study for a Ph.D., focusing on AI vision, under the supervision of Professor Li Feifei, and received his Ph.D. in 2016.
And even during his Ph.D. at Stanford, Andrej was already famous. He designed and taught a course called "CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition" and became a lecturer in deep learning at Stanford.
During his Ph.D., he published many papers in the field of CV, and interned at Google and DeepMind.
After graduating, he went to OpenAI, a newly founded AI research institute, focusing on computer vision.
It was also at OpenAI that Andrej's talent was favored by Musk.
As one of the initiators of OpenAI, Musk knew that the learning ability shown by this little brother would never stop at the field of computer vision after he came into contact with Andrej.
So "internal poaching" brought Andrej from OpenAI to Tesla - this is also one of the contradictions that Musk was later kicked out of the game by OpenAI.
It is said that Musk once said that many people think of Andrej as an excellent AI vision scientist, but I know that he will be the top AI leader in the world.
It means that if you put it in OpenAI or anywhere else, it will bury him.
After joining Tesla at the age of 33, Andrej first served as Tesla's Director of AI and AutoPilot Vision, where he was responsible for leading the autonomous driving neural network team.
其后随着大神Jim Keller离职,Andrej 接管了整个AI团队。
At that time, Jim Keller left the post of vice president of Tesla's AutoPilot, and the outside world thought that there was no one to replace such a god.
But Musk believes that the strongest man is already in the line.
He promoted the two young talents under Jim Keller to the number one position, with Pete Bannon in charge of hardware and Andrej Karpathy in charge of software.
Under the leadership of these two young talents, Tesla's FSD was born, and its autonomous driving capabilities continued to evolve.
Andrej, as Musk said, has realized the transformation of a top AI vision scientist into an AI giant.
Andrej is trusted and often the most central speaker at Tesla's annual Tech Open Days.
And Musk also keeps giving him the most important business.
For example, AutoPilot, FSD, and humanoid robots.
In addition, according to Andrej's disclosure, he will also be responsible for Tesla's supercomputing Dojo deployment.
It's just that I didn't expect that Musk's right-hand man, who was so trusted, left without warning.
While Tesla has a precedent of executives not coming back after a long vacation, Andrej vowed to return to his post after a long vacation in April.
Interestingly, shortly after Andrej's vacation, Musk said that Tesla needed to lay off employees to cope with the economic downturn, as well as strictly check attendance...... Those who clock in for less than 40 hours a week must report and explain.
So at that time, some netizens shook their wit:
But don't forget that there's a guy named Andrej who hasn't clocked in for two months.
However, Andrej's departure coincided with Musk's rare senior executive's departure.
One More Thing
在回归OpenAI的一年里，似乎Andrej Karpathy的存在感并非很强。
Many people's impression of him last time may be the popular science video about large language models released at the end of last year.
1 hour in length, all "non-technical introductions", covering model inference, training, fine-tuning, and emerging large model operating systems, as well as security challenges.
The video has been on YouTube for only 1 day, and it has already had 200,000 views, and the most classic is the sentence "The essence of a large model is two files".
Therefore, many netizens hope that Andrej Karpathy can release more videos in view of Andrej Karpathy's previous experience of leaving his job to record online classes at home.
And even during OpenAI's palace fight, he did not express a clear stand on X like other members, but simply issued a radiation warning sign:
Coupled with the fact that he has previously published the LLM OS he is interested in, it seems that it is only a matter of time before he leaves OpenAI and chooses his own project.
As for his next plans, although the details are not known at this time, an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement:
Pursue personal projects.
As for whether it is the LLM OS that everyone speculates, it is worth paying attention to.
Reference Links:
[1]https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1757600075281547344?s=46&t=iTysI4vQLQqCNJjSmBODPw
[2]https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/andrej-karpathy-is-leaving-openai-again-but-he-says-there-was-no-drama/
[3]https://twitter.com/george_napalm/status/1757600292848230602?s=46&t=iTysI4vQLQqCNJjSmBODPw
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