{"id":64384,"date":"2022-07-14T12:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=64384"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:11:13","slug":"teslas-ai-chief-andrej-karpathy-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/teslas-ai-chief-andrej-karpathy-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla&#8217;s AI chief Andrej Karpathy resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla&#8217;s AI director and head of the Autopilot program, Andrej Karpathy, has left his post after four months of &#8216;creative leave&#8217;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karpathy\/status\/1547332300186066944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00a0\u00abIt has been a great pleasure to help Tesla in achieving its goals over the past five years, and it is difficult to make the decision to part ways,\u00bb the engineer said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The engineer did not disclose his future plans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abI hope to spend more time revisiting my long-standing interests in the fields of AI, open-source software and education,\u00bb he noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Karpathy&#8217;s departure comes amid mass layoffs at Tesla. The company previously laid off more than 200 Autopilot division employees and closed its San Mateo, California office. In total, the automaker plans to cut up to 10% of its staff.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Tesla, Karpathy was a research scientist in OpenAI&#8217;s deep learning program, specializing in computer vision and generative modeling.<\/p>\n<p>Along with him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/briefings\/tesla-loses-head-of-artificial-intelligence-amid-high-level-departures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" title=\"\u043f\u043e\u043a\u0438\u043d\u0443\u043b\u0438\">\u043f\u043e\u043a\u0438\u043d\u0443\u043b\u0438<\/a> Tesla Energy&#8217;s Senior Software Manager Chris Rollins and Diversity and Inclusion Director Kristen Cavano.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March, the electric-car maker <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tesla-places-artificial-intelligence-at-the-heart-of-its-long-term-development-plan\">incorporated artificial intelligence<\/a> into its long-term development plan.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Elon Musk said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-tesla-robots-could-avert-civilisations-collapse\">Tesla&#8217;s robots will prevent the collapse of civilization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla&#8217;s AI director and head of the Autopilot program, Andrej Karpathy, has stepped down after four months of &#8216;creative leave&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1319],"class_list":["post-64384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-tesla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64386,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64384\/revisions\/64386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}