Andrej Karpathy’s remarks come at a time of rising concerns about AI replacing workers, of mass layoffs, with AI being seen as the culprit.

Take AI startups like Anysphere, whose Cursor app helps software developers write code, Harvey, which provides AI to law firms, and OpenEvidence, which does the same for doctors (and on October 20th raised $200m at a valuation of $6bn).

The company is encouraging employees affected to apply for other jobs at Meta, with most expected to find other roles

OpenAI, along with Oracle and Vantage Data Centers, will develop a data center campus in Wisconsin, as part of the Stargate project, to keep the U.S. ahead in the global artificial intelligence race,