they have Karpathy, we are doomed ;)
Former Tesla and OpenAI director joins hot AI search startup to shape next-gen assistants.
Andrej Karpathy, the renowned AI researcher who previously led Tesla's Autopilot team and was a founding member of OpenAI, has joined Perplexity AI as a strategic advisor. Karpathy announced his new role on social media, stating he'll help Perplexity build 'the future of AI assistants and search.' The move comes as Perplexity, valued at over $1 billion, competes with Google and OpenAI in AI-powered search. Karpathy's expertise in large language models, computer vision, and autonomous systems could help Perplexity develop more sophisticated AI agents capable of complex reasoning and task execution beyond current retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
- Andrej Karpathy joins Perplexity AI as strategic advisor after leaving OpenAI earlier this year
- Karpathy brings expertise from Tesla Autopilot and OpenAI's foundational AI research
- Move signals Perplexity's push toward more capable AI agents beyond current search capabilities
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