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Dobby

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2026-04-13 / thought-leaders-researcherJensen Huang Gifts Karpathy First NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 — Building Autonomous 'Dobby' Agent SystemNVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang personally delivered the first DGX Station GB300 to Andrej Karpathy, with a note saying 'You were with me every step of the way.' The workstation features 748GB of unified memory and 20 petaflops of FP4 performance, capable of running trillion-parameter models locally. Karpathy — who told the No Priors podcast he 'hasn't typed a line of code since December' — plans to use it for his 'Dobby the House Elf claw' autonomous agent system.
2026-04-10 / thought-leaders-researcherKarpathy Reveals 'Dobby the Elf Claw': Single AI Agent Replaces 6 Home Apps via WhatsApp, Powered by DGX Station GB300 Gift from Jensen HuangIn new Benzinga coverage (April 9), Karpathy details his home AI agent 'Dobby the Elf Claw' that manages lights, HVAC, shades, pool, spa, and security through a single WhatsApp interface — replacing six separate apps. The system sends real-time alerts with images (e.g., delivery truck notifications). Jensen Huang personally gifted Karpathy a DGX Station GB300 superchip, which Karpathy says will 'make for a beautiful, spacious home for my Dobby the House Elf claw.' Builder takeaway: single-agent architectures are now replacing multi-app UX patterns at the home level.
2026-04-01 / thought-leaders-researcherKarpathy Demos 'Dobby' OpenClaw Agent Replacing Smartphone Apps via WhatsAppAndrej Karpathy demonstrated 'Dobby,' an OpenClaw AI agent that scanned his local network, discovered his Sonos system, reverse-engineered its undocumented API, and now controls his home's sound, lighting, shades, HVAC, pool, and security cameras via WhatsApp messages. Karpathy argues smart home apps shouldn't exist — the future architecture should expose API endpoints directly to intelligent agents that act as glue between all devices. This is the clearest demo yet of an AI agent fully replacing multiple vendor apps with a single natural-language interface.
2026-03-30 / thought-leaders-researcherJensen Huang Hand-Delivers First NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 to Karpathy: 'You Were With Me Every Step'Jensen Huang personally delivered the world's first DGX Station GB300 to Karpathy's Palo Alto lab with a handwritten note: 'You were with me every step of the way' — acknowledging that Karpathy's language model and neural scaling work was foundational to the transformer era that made NVIDIA a $3T company. The workstation features 748GB unified memory and 20 petaflops FP4. Karpathy plans to use it as the compute substrate for 'Dobby the House Elf claw' — his autonomous AI agent project.
2026-03-27 / thought-leaders-researcherKarpathy's 'Dobby the Elf Claw': AI Agent Controls Entire Home via WhatsApp — Auto-Discovered Sonos API on LANKarpathy revealed a persistent AI agent he calls 'Dobby the Elf Claw' that controls his entire home — lights, HVAC, shades, pool, spa, security system, and Sonos — via natural language WhatsApp commands. The agent autonomously discovered his Sonos endpoints by scanning the local network, found the API documentation online, and offered to integrate. It also monitors deliveries via image-based alerts. The system runs on his local network without internet-facing endpoints, demonstrating practical agentic capability well beyond coding.
2026-03-26 / thought-leaders-researcherKarpathy Receives First DGX Station GB300: 748GB Memory, 20 PFLOPs AI Compute from a DesktopNVIDIA delivered the first DGX Station GB300 to Andrej Karpathy — a Dell Pro Max combining a 72-core Grace CPU and Blackwell Ultra GPU via NVLink-C2C. The desktop workstation provides 748GB coherent memory and 20 PFLOPs of AI compute, capable of running open models up to 1 trillion parameters locally. Karpathy dubbed it 'a beautiful, spacious home for my Dobby the House Elf claw.' DGX Stations are now available to order from six OEMs.
2026-03-24 / thought-leaders-researcherKarpathy on No Priors: 'State of Psychosis,' Built 'Dobby' House Elf AI, Runs 20 Agents in Parallel, No Code Since DecemberOn the No Priors podcast, Karpathy revealed he hasn't typed a line of code since December — AI agents now produce 100% of his code, up from 80/20 human/agent split just weeks earlier. He built 'Dobby the House Elf,' a WhatsApp-controlled AI agent that replaced six separate apps by unifying his smart home (lighting, HVAC, security cameras, pool/spa) through natural language commands, including alerting him when FedEx trucks are detected on security cameras. Karpathy described experiencing 'claw psychosis' in January while running 20 parallel agents and trying to comprehend the implications.
2026-03-22 / thought-leaders-researcherKarpathy 'State of Psychosis': Hasn't Typed Code Since December, Now Full-Time AI Agent DirectorAndrej Karpathy told the No Priors podcast he hasn't typed 'a line of code probably since December,' describing a complete shift from engineer to AI orchestrator. He disclosed building 'Dobby the House Elf' — an OpenClaw-powered home agent controlling sound, lighting, HVAC, pool, and security — while describing the integration process as inducing a 'claw psychosis.' Fortune framed this March 21 as the clearest first-person account of a top researcher crossing the agent-first threshold permanently.

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Andrej Karpathy
Karpathy built Dobby, a WhatsApp-controlled house elf AI agent.
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Andrej Karpathy demonstrated Dobby AI agent controlling smart home via WhatsApp
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OpenClaw
Dobby is built on OpenClaw agent framework
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Karpathy built Dobby, a WhatsApp-controlled house elf AI agent.
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Andrej Karpathy demonstrated Dobby AI agent controlling smart home via WhatsApp
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