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Tesla Senior Director of AI Andrej Karpathy says he is leaving the company after about five years; Karpathy led the computer vision team for Tesla Autopilot

- Tesla's AI leader Andrej Karpathy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the company.  — Karpathy worked …

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  • @karpathy Andrej Karpathy on x
    It's been a great pleasure to help Tesla towards its goals over the last 5 years and a difficult decision to part ways. In that time, Autopilot graduated from lane keeping to city streets and I look forward to seeing the exceptionally strong Autopilot team continue that momentum.
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    @karpathy Thanks for everything you have done for Tesla! It has been an honor working with you.
  • @karpathy Andrej Karpathy on x
    I have no concrete plans for what's next but look to spend more time revisiting my long-term passions around technical work in AI, open source and education.
  • @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
    Tesla's AI program is now driverless. https://twitter.com/...
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
    Looks like the forced return to office is leading to more senior casualties than expected? 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
  • @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x
    Yesterday I was looking at Elon's Twitter clownshow and wondering how Elon managed to hang onto onto Andrej when previously being head of autonomy at Tesla was like being Spinal Tap's drummer. And today... https://twitter.com/...
  • @nealboudette Neal Boudette on x
    Departure of Karpathy is significant. He has been vocal proponent and defender of Autopilot in last 6-12 months. He's leaving when 8 people have died in 6 Tesla crashes in the last 2 months - all w hallmarks of Autopilot involvement (high speed, no braking/evasive steering) 1/n h…
  • @wholemarsblog @wholemarsblog on x
    Karpathy said it best. From the time he started Tesla to today they've gone from basic lane keeping to full city streets driving. Nobody can deny that the difference between the software when he started and FSD Beta today is just night and day. And it all runs on the same cars. h…
  • @wholemarsblog @wholemarsblog on x
    Andrej Karpathy was the Director of AI. he lead the AI team. Ashok leads Autopilot Software, which is the larger team with the engineers who actually make the Autopilot updates. @elonmusk
  • @wholemarsblog @wholemarsblog on x
    Andrej Karpathy's transition out of Tesla has been planned for a long time. Starting over a year ago Elon started making a point to everyone that Ashok was leading Autopilot software, not Andrej. Now I know that it's because Andrej was starting to talk about moving on.
  • @caseynewton Casey Newton on x
    Elon is a talent magnet, they said. People will be lining up to work for him at Twitter, they said https://twitter.com/...