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Overview
Andrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator whose autoresearch repositories form a popular benchmark ecosystem for automated ML research. His NanoChat autoresearch repo is a standard starting point for systems that autonomously improve small language model training.
Autoresearch Ecosystem
- NanoChat autoresearch: Train a small LM to lowest validation BPB within fixed compute budget
- autoresearch@home: Collaborative extension where dozens of humans and hundreds of agents improve performance collectively
- nanogpt-speedrun: Community-optimized speedrun baseline refined over 2+ years
Connection to Recursive
recursive’s June 2026 automated research system outperformed the autoresearch@home community best (0.9109 vs 0.9372 BPB) starting from the same seed solution (2026-06-11-recursive-automated-ai-research).