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Sure enough, Tesla executives on long vacations are all tricks before leaving.
Just now, Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Senior AI Director, Tesla AutoPilot Leader, Tesla Supercomputing Dojo Leader, Tesla Optimus Prime Humanoid Robot Leader… … Musk’s most reliant AI new generation bull, the official announced his departure from Tesla.
Musk also tweeted a rare response: Thank you for everything you have done for Tesla, it is my honor to work with you.
Strangely, there was no sign of unhappiness before Andre left. He was Musk’s most trusted humerus in Tesla. The humanoid robot is still waiting”…
But even so, Andre said goodbye to his Tesla career with a tweet, saying that there is no clear whereabouts of his work, and he hopes to spend more time on things such as AI, open source and technical education.
Tesla shock: Musk most trusted executives to leave
Andrei tweeted:
In the past 5 years, I have been very happy to help Tesla achieve many goals, and witnessed AutoPilot from testing to the beginning of deployment into the streets of the city, so it was a difficult decision to leave Tesla, and I look forward to the AutoPilot team being stronger.
He further added that he currently has no clear whereabouts of work, and will first spend time on things of interest such as AI, open source, and technical education.
And this time, Musk also rarely sent blessings and praise to the departing executives. He said he thanked Andre for everything he had done for Tesla and it was an honor to work with Andre.
Perhaps also taking into account the potential impact of his resignation, Andre also specifically stated that Tesla has hundreds of engineers for Autopilot, but he is not as high-profile as himself, and he is just fortunate to stand in front of the stage and be seen by more people. .
But modesty returns to modesty, and Andre is undoubtedly the well-deserved core axis of Tesla in recent years.
He is the senior director of Tesla AI, directly at the helm of the algorithm engineer team of AutoPilot and FSD, and is also in charge of the development of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus Prime.
Even in order to poach him to work at Tesla, Musk directly offended other members of OpenAI and was kicked out of the well-known AI research institution he co-founded.
Of course, Musk also took Andre to heights he hadn’t been before.
Who is Andre Karpas?
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1986.
Immigrated to Toronto, Canada with his family at the age of 15 – a time when deep learning godfather Jeffry Hinton shunned to the University of Toronto.
Andre was also lucky enough to enter the University of Toronto, graduating in 2009 with a degree in Computer Science and Physics.
He then entered the University of British Columbia, majoring in computer science, and received a master’s degree in 2011.
After that, he went to Stanford to study for a Ph.D., focusing on AI vision, under the tutelage of Professor Li Feifei, and obtained his Ph.D. in 2016.
And during his Ph.D. at Stanford, Andre was already famous. He personally designed and taught a course called “CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition” and became a Stanford lecturer on deep learning.
During his Ph.D., many of the papers he published were highly cited articles in the field of CV, and he also interned at Google and DeepMind.
After graduating, he went to OpenAI, an AI research institute that was just founded, mainly studying computer vision.
Also at OpenAI, Andre’s talent was spotted by Musk.
As one of the initiators of OpenAI, after Musk came into contact with Andre, he knew that the learning ability displayed by this little brother would never stop in the field of computer vision.
So “internal poaching” brought Andre from OpenAI to Tesla – this is one of the contradictions that Musk was later kicked out by OpenAI.
It is said that Musk once said that many people regard Andre as an excellent AI vision scientist, but I know that he will be the top AI leader in the world.
It means that if you put it in OpenAI or any other place, it will bury him.
After joining Tesla at the age of 33, Andrei served as Tesla’s AI and AutoPilot vision director, responsible for leading the autopilot neural network team.
Later, with the departure of the great god Jim Keller, Andre took over the entire AI team.
At that time, Jim Keller left the position of vice president of Tesla AutoPilot, and the outside world thought that no one could replace such a great god.
But Musk believes that the strongest are already on the line.
He promoted two young talents under Jim Keller to No. 1, Pete Bannon was in charge of hardware, and Andrej Karpathy was in charge of software.
Under the leadership of these two young talents, Tesla FSD was born, and the autonomous driving capability continued to evolve.
Brother Andre has indeed achieved the transformation from top AI vision scientists to AI gurus, as Musk said.
How trusted Andre is, at Tesla’s annual technology open day, Andre is often the core speaker.
And Musk continues to give him the most important business.
Such as AutoPilot, FSD, and humanoid robots.
In addition, according to Andre’s disclosure, he will also be responsible for Tesla’s supercomputing Dojo deployment.
I just didn’t expect that Musk’s trusted right-hand man would leave without warning.
Although Tesla has previously had a precedent for executives not returning after a long vacation, when Andre took his leave in April this year, he vowed to return to his post after the adjustment.
Interestingly, shortly after Andre’s vacation, Musk said to the public that Tesla needs to lay off employees to deal with the economic downturn, as well as strictly check attendance… If you clock in less than 40 hours a week, you must report it.
So at that time, some netizens shook their heads:
But don’t forget that there is a guy named Andre who hasn’t clocked in for two months.
Now… BBQ.
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