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(Reuters) – Andrej Karpathy, a synthetic intelligence researcher and one of many founding members of OpenAI, mentioned in a publish on social media platform X that he departed the Microsoft-backed firm on Monday.
The information marks a major departure from OpenAI, one of many high labs competing to develop more and more succesful synthetic intelligence.
“My rapid plan is to work on my private tasks and see what occurs,” Karpathy mentioned within the publish on Tuesday.
Karpathy, who joined OpenAI in his second stint final 12 months, was beforehand a senior director for AI at Tesla (NASDAQ:) the place he performed a key function in creating the electrical automobile maker’s synthetic intelligence and driver assistant expertise.
Karpathy had studied below distinguished Stanford AI scientist Fei-Fei Li and joined OpenAI as one in all its earliest staffers earlier than shifting to Tesla. He not too long ago spoke concerning the concept of AI often called giant language fashions performing as a brand new form of laptop working system.
