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.

OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled a free web browser that is designed to work closely with the company’s artificial intelligence technologies, including the chatbot ChatGPT. The new browser, called Atlas, is a direct challenge to tech giants like Google, Apple and Microsoft, whose browsers have long dominated the internet.

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 move followed a viral controversy in which users of OpenAI’s Sora 2 model, an AI text-to-video generator, generated a realistic AI-made video of actor Bryan Cranston appearing alongside a digital likeness of Michael Jackson—without the actor's consent.

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