# Andrej Karpathy

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Updated: 2026-09-20

AI researcher and educator who popularized the LLM operating-system frame.

Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher, builder and educator. His LLM OS framing is a useful architecture sketch for assistants that combine models, memory, tools and multimodal interfaces.

Source: https://karpathy.ai/

Biography comes from Karpathy's public site and talks; portrait comes from the linked public GitHub profile. Checked September 19, 2026.

## Referenced in 101

- [Intro to Large Language Models: the LLM OS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g) ([Personal assistants 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/personal-assistants)) — Karpathy's LLM OS frame treats the model as a CPU surrounded by memory, tools, retrieval, multimodal I/O and orchestration.

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