‘The Karpathy Loop’: Former OpenAI researcher’s autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days—and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading

Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI and later headed up AI for Tesla, went viral on X. This alone isn’t so unusual. Karpathy—who now works as an independent AI researcher and is also the founder of Eureka Labs, which says it is creating a new kind of school for the AI era—has 1.9 million followers on X and his reputation is such that almost anything he says about AI is treated as either gospel or prophecy.

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