# Andrej Karpathy: founder, OpenAI

Canonical ID: `27566b33-cc85-4548-ba1b-f949e087d4c5`

Member of [OpenAI](/companies/openai.md)'s founding team in December 2015; later led AI at [Tesla](/companies/tesla.md).

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## Foundings (1)

- [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) founded 2015-12-11 (cofounder) _no longer at company_

See all founders: [/founders](https://registry.deploy.report/founders.md)

## Co-founders (9)

- [John Schulman](https://registry.deploy.report/people/john-schulman.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Ilya Sutskever](https://registry.deploy.report/people/ilya-sutskever.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Wojciech Zaremba](https://registry.deploy.report/people/wojciech-zaremba.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Durk Kingma](https://registry.deploy.report/people/durk-kingma.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Trevor Blackwell](https://registry.deploy.report/people/trevor-blackwell.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Vicki Cheung](https://registry.deploy.report/people/vicki-cheung.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Pamela Vagata](https://registry.deploy.report/people/pamela-vagata.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Greg Brockman](https://registry.deploy.report/people/greg-brockman.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md) (2015-12-11)
- [Sam Altman](https://registry.deploy.report/people/sam-altman.md) co-founded [OpenAI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/openai.md)

## Sources (1)

1. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/ · 2015-12-11


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