Former Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy has said he is rejoining ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which Elon Musk co-founded in 2015. “Like many others both in/out of AI, I am very inspired by the impact of their work, and I have personally benefited greatly from it,” he said. Karpathy joined Tesla in 2017 after having worked at Open AI.
In 2022, Tesla’s head of AI, Andrej Karpathy, and a prominent leader in the development of Autopilot, its driver assist feature, which requires supervision by a human, announced on Twitter that he’s resigning from the automaker giant.
In his tweet last year, Karpathy wrote, “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.” In a follow-up tweet, Karpathy further said he has “no concrete plans for what’s next” but wants to revisit “my long-term passions around technical work in AI, open source and education.”