SAN FRANCISCO—Andrej Karpathy, a high-profile Tesla executive who played a key role in developing the electric car maker’s artificial intelligence and driver assistant technology, said on Wednesday he is leaving the company.
The departure of Karpathy, who provided no reason for leaving, comes at a critical time as Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk races to achieve full self-driving capability this year, after missing earlier targets several times.
Credit Suisse analyst Dan Levy wrote in an investor note that Karpathy’s departure “possibly reflects challenges to Tesla progress in FSD/robotaxi.
“We continue to view Tesla efforts in AV/robotaxi as ‘show me’”…