# Andrej Karpathy **Stub.** Andrej Karpathy (b. 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, a founding member of [[OpenAI]] and former director of AI at [[Tesla]] (where he led the Autopilot vision team). He is one of the most influential communicators of modern [[Deep Learning]] and [[Large Language Model]] practice, known for widely-followed educational content and for coining the term "vibe coding" (2025) to describe AI-assisted programming by natural-language prompting. A bridge figure between the research frontier and its popular understanding. ## See Also - [[Deep Learning]] · [[Large Language Model]] · [[Neural Network]]