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What is Karpathy's relationship with Keller Jordan and the modded-nanogpt research community? #113

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Research

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Key Relationships and Collaborations

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The Muon research confirmed Karpathy publicly endorsed Jordan's work in October 2024, but the Key Relationships section only documents Karpathy-Musk. Jordan and Bernstein are now established figures who built directly on Karpathy's nanoGPT infrastructure — this relationship (mentor-by-proxy, open-source collaborator, competitive-benchmark provider) is undocumented. Fills an explicit open-questions gap: 'academic collaborators and OpenAI colleagues are unresearched.'

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Follow-up from Issue #61: What is the Muon optimizer and what role did the nanoGPT speedrun play in its development?

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