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# Andrej Karpathy

## Profile

A prominent AI researcher; founding member of OpenAI; former Director of AI at Tesla; founder of Eureka Labs (education-focused AI venture).

## Real-world references

- Personal site: karpathy.ai
- X/Twitter: @karpathy
- Known for advocacy of LLMs in education and autonomous research agents

## Role in the source

Mentioned in passing at 00:07:28 in the context of his work on autonomous AI research agents — invoked as authority/precedent for the [[concept-model-driven-retrieval]] and [[concept-outcome-driven-prompting]] paradigms.