# Andrej Karpathy

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Okay, Let's Slow Down

Bella Pivo is 23. She's an analyst at FoundersEdge, a pre-seed fund in Boston, so she sits in pitches every week and sees what gets funded years before the rest of us feel it. She's been posting on TikTok for ten years, since she was 13 and learning sign language to keep talking to her sister, and …

Category Queen vs. Category Queen: Is OpenAI About to Get Dethroned?

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for compute. Every month through May of 2029. Roughly $45 billion total. That single contract is bigger than SpaceX’s entire annual revenue today. Software is paying hardware. Hardware is paying energy. Energy is paying space. Is it three card monte?…

Why Andrej Karpathy Joining Anthropic Is a Bigger Deal Than It Looks

Andrej Karpathy, founding OpenAI member, former Tesla AI director, the person who coined \"vibe coding,\" just joined Anthropic\'s pretraining team. Paul and Mike explain why this move is a bigger deal than it looks, what it signals about the race toward recursive self-improvement, and why Paul thi…

Ep. 216: Google I/O, Musk v. OpenAI Verdict, Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic & Meta Layoffs

Google IO just told the world we\'re entering the AGI Agentic Era, and Andrej Karpathy just joined Anthropic to help build it. This week\'s episode covers the biggest stories in AI: the Google I/O mega-drop, Karpathy\'s move and what it means for recursive self-improvement, the end of the Musk v. O…

Ep. 209: Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, Claude Code Leak, & OpenAI Raises $122B

Anthropic revealed a model so effective at finding and exploiting zero-day cybersecurity vulnerabilities that they\'re not releasing it publicly and instead created a defensive patching initiative called Project Glass Wing with 40+ companies including Apple, Amazon, and Google. Paul and Mike also…

Every AI Lab Just Pivoted: Here\'s the Full Picture

Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput map out the full landscape of how every major AI lab is now racing toward AI agents and enterprise customers, all triggered by what Claude Code unlocked. He connects OpenAI\'s \"super app\" consolidation, private equity deals, Andrej Karpathy\'s auto-researcher work, and…

Ep. 203: Anthropic vs. The Pentagon Round 3, AI Writing Quality Debate, Atlassian Cuts 1,600 Jobs

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon enters the courtroom. The New York Times tests whether readers can tell AI writing from human writing. And Atlassian becomes one of the first major companies to openly blame AI for cutting 10% of its workforce. Paul and Mike break down what Emil Michael\'s comments on CN…

IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul

Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security. Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter Mind-Blowing…

Good Shift - Who's Typing? How the Algorithm Vibe Codes You - E218

In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick takes the term "vibe coding," coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 to describe building software by simply describing what you want to an AI, and turns it on its head. Every repeated thought is a line of code, and every algorithm is co…

Leon Wankum: Bitcoin as Digital Real Estate on NVDA Earnings Day

Leon Wankum, author of the upcoming book Digital Real Estate, joins Halston Valencia to explain why he sees Bitcoin absorbing the monetary premium of real estate. He also covers Strategy's preferred products like Strike ($STRK) and Metaplanet's shift from hotels to Bitcoin. In the second half, co-h…