Andrej Karpathy's new open source 'autoresearch' lets you run hundreds of AI experiments a night — with revolutionary implications

Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy—the influential former Tesla AI lead and co-founder and former member of OpenAI who coined the term "vibe coding"— posted on X about his new open source project, autoresearch. It wasn't a finished model or a massive corporate product: it was by his own admission a simple, 630-line script made available on Github under a permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License. But the ambition was massive: automating the scientific method with AI agents while us humans sleep. "The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement," he stated on X.The system functions as an autonomous optimization loop. An AI agent is given a training script and a fixed compute budget (typically 5 minutes on a GPU)