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Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again — but he says there was no drama


Andrej Karpathy, a widely respected research scientist, has quit OpenAI for the second time to focus on personal projects.

First of all nothing “happened” and it’s not a result of any particular event, issue or drama (but please keep the conspiracy theories coming as they are highly entertaining :)),” Karpathy said. Karpathy’s X bio, which has now been changed, read “building kind of a J.A.R.V.I.S at @OpenAI,” indicating that he was working on a project related to AI Assistants at the company. “I name JARVIS in general terms only, as one of my favorite popular portrayals of an AI – a helpful, conversational, empowering e/ia automation.

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