Eureka Labs

Eureka Labs is an AI education startup founded in July 2024 by Andrej Karpathy — the former Director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI. The company's mission is to create "a new kind of school that is AI native," where expert-written course materials are scaled and guided by AI teaching assistants. If successful, it aims to make it easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach and depth.

Karpathy is one of the most influential figures in AI education. His YouTube series "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero" and "Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT" (2025, 3.5 hours) are widely regarded as the best free resources for understanding how large language models work. His approach combines deep technical expertise with accessible explanations that reach millions of viewers.

In March 2026, Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch — a 630-line Python script that lets an AI agent autonomously run machine learning experiments on a single GPU. The tool modifies training code, runs 5-minute experiments, keeps improvements, and discards failures — running approximately 100 experiments overnight. It gained 60,000+ GitHub stars within weeks and represents a new paradigm in autonomous AI research.