George Hotz

George Hotz (geohot) is an American hacker, entrepreneur, and software engineer born October 2, 1989 in Glen Rock, New Jersey. At age 17 he became the first person to publicly jailbreak an iPhone (2007), and later reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3's security (2010), prompting a high-profile lawsuit from Sony that settled in 2011. He interned at Facebook, won $150K from Google for Chrome exploits (2014), and joined Google's Project Zero elite security team. He won DEF CON CTF with Carnegie Mellon's PPP (2013, 2014) and placed first solo at NYU CSAW CTF (2013). In 2015 he founded comma.ai, building openpilot into the leading open-source driver-assistance system supporting 300+ car models (60k+ GitHub stars). He stepped down from day-to-day comma.ai leadership in October 2022, departed entirely in November 2025. He briefly interned at Twitter under Elon Musk in late 2022, resigning after four weeks. In November 2022 he founded tiny corp, raising $5.1M in May 2023 to build tinygrad (31k+ GitHub stars), a minimalist deep learning framework, and the tinybox, a $15,000 AI computer with petaflop-class performance. His mission: commoditize the petaflop. Tiny corp is building a fully sovereign AMD compute stack, rewriting the entire driver/runtime/library layer in roughly 12,000 lines of code. Based in San Diego, CA.