Summary

Andrej Karpathy was Tesla’s AI lead well before AI was everywhere all the time. At the very early part of the AI hype cycle, he was the only AI guy many people knew. He led Tesla’s efforts toward Full Self Driving (FSD) for years, and it’s still not exactly clear why he left “right before” that was supposed to be achieved, but the obvious challenges of actually getting paid robotaxis on the road still seem like the most plausible explanation to me.

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