George Hotz
George Hotz | |
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Hotz in 2016 | |
| Born | George Francis Hotz October 2, 1989 Glen Rock, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Other names | geohot, tomcr00se |
| Years active | 2007–present |
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| Website | Official website |
George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, and software engineer. He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony. From September 2015 onwards, he has been working on his vehicle automation machine learning company comma.ai. Since November 2022, Hotz has been working on tinygrad, a deep learning framework.