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'The Karpathy Loop' Gets Named.

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Fortune profiled Karpathy's autoresearch approach: an autonomous agent ran 700 experiments over two days, discovering 20 training optimizations that yielded 11% training speed improvement on a larger model. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke independently ran it overnight on internal data — 37 experiments, 19% performance gain. First major CEO third-party validation of autonomous research as a practical workflow. Fortune

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Karpathy: AutoResearch.
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