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The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."

—Stephen Hawking

Andrej Karpathy Lets Claude Build HackerTube to Escape YouTube’s Algorithm Recommendations

Andrej Karpathy used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to build HackerTube, a YouTube alternative featuring videos recommended by the Hacker News community. (Image: HackerTube/Claude)

Fed up with YouTube’s algorithm-driven recommendations and exaggerated thumbnails, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy used Anthropic’s Claude to build HackerTube, a video discovery platform featuring 6,454 YouTube videos recommended by the Hacker News community over nearly two decades.

Andrej Karpathy Says 6 Billion People Have Never Used LLMs as AI Divide Widens

Andrej Karpathy says a widening gap separates people who have never used LLMs from those working with advanced AI systems.

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy says the gap between everyday AI users and people with access to frontier AI systems is widening. His estimates range from 6 billion people who have never used large language models to around 5,000 insiders working with advanced systems.

Karpathy Sees Highly Customized AI Gaming Future As Claude Builds LOTR 3D World

Andrej Karpathy (left) and a still from the low-poly 3D Lord of the Rings scene generated by Claude Opus 5 using 5,500 lines of Three.js code.

AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has outlined a vision for the future of gaming after Claude Opus 5 generated 5,500 lines of Three.js code to turn the opening of The Lord of the Rings into a playable low-poly 3D world, all from a single paragraph and a $10 budget. He calls it the beginning of “ephemeral GTA of X on demand.

OpenAI Co-founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic; To Work on Pre-Training

OpenAI co-founder and former director of Tesla AI, Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic AI. He will be working on pre-training.

OpenAI co-founder and former director of Tesla AI, Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic AI. He will be working on pre-training.