Andrej Karpathy

What appealed to me the most is that OpenAI is a new, historically unprecedented model for innovation. The existing models include academia, an industry research lab, a startup, and we also have some other singular but still interesting experiments such as Bell Labs, a massive research lab enabled by a government-regulated monopoly. These all have their interesting pros and cons. I felt that OpenAI presented a very interesting experiment in innovation in this sense, it combines elements of things I love (it's an academia/startup hybrid), I felt that there was a lot of potential value that a...