No Surprise, Andrej Karpathy Returns to OpenAI

In a rather unsurprising turn of events, former director of AI at Tesla, Andrej Karpathy, has rejoined OpenAI. In his tweet announcing the transition, he said that the developments in AI are inspiring and having benefitted from them, he finds it exciting to "jump back and build". Having been one of the founding members of OpenAI, Andrej left the company in 2017 to join Tesla and support Elon Musk in his endeavours. Musk was also one of the co-founders of OpenAI initially but had later left the Board member position in 2018 "to avoid future conflicts of interests due to Tesla developing AI", OpenAI said. At Tesla, Karpathy undertook multiple AI endeavours and, perhaps most importantly, was his work with Elon Musk on creating "Optimus", the humanoid robot whose prototype was unveiled on AI Day, 30 October, 2022.