Users clash over Karpathy’s silence on open-source AI and a block-button fallout
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-07-26
A reply thread criticizes Andrej Karpathy for not publicly supporting open-source AI and says he blocked a user for raising the issue.
The quoted reply says the user had hoped Karpathy would speak up for open-source AI, but felt disappointed that he did not, especially given his earlier contributions and his role at Anthropic.
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