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OpenAI

OpenAI is where much of the public story around GPT systems became legible through reports, releases, and recognizable research teams.

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Amanda Askell portrait
Researcher 7 reports

Amanda Askell

Anthropic / OpenAI

Amanda Askell is a philosopher and AI alignment researcher at Anthropic. Her personal site says she previously worked as a research scientist on the policy team at OpenAI.

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Hyung Won Chung portrait
Researcher 3 reports

Hyung Won Chung

Google Gemini / OpenAI

Research Scientist at OpenAI focused on reasoning and agents. Previously at Google Brain, he worked on T5X, PaLM, Flan-PaLM, and Flan-T5, and he earned a PhD at MIT.

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South Korea
Ashvin Nair portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Ashvin Nair

OpenAI

Researcher at OpenAI. He recently completed a PhD at UC Berkeley's BAIR lab, where he worked on machine learning for robotics, offline reinforcement learning, and self-supervised reinforcement learning.

OpenAI
Juntang Zhuang portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Juntang Zhuang

OpenAI

Juntang Zhuang leads pretraining at xAI and previously worked at OpenAI. His homepage highlights Grok pretraining work and contributions to GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo long-context, DALL-E 3, and OpenAI embeddings.

OpenAI
Tim Brooks portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Tim Brooks

OpenAI

AI researcher who co-created Sora at OpenAI and invented InstructPix2Pix during his PhD at Berkeley AI Research.

OpenAI
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David Mély portrait
Researcher 1 reports

David Mély

OpenAI

Researcher and engineer working on artificial general intelligence; his public experience page lists him as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, after roles at Google/X and Vicarious.

OpenAI
Joost Huizinga portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Joost Huizinga

OpenAI

OpenAI researcher whose work spans alignment, machine learning, complexity science, open-ended evolution, and artificial life.

OpenAI
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Shyamal Anadkat portrait
Researcher 2 reports

Shyamal Anadkat

OpenAI

Engineer and product leader who worked on OpenAI's Applied AI team and now advises startups on AI products. He writes publicly about agents, retrieval, and evaluation on his personal site.

OpenAI
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Yang Song portrait
Researcher 2 reports

Yang Song

OpenAI / Alibaba Qwen

Research Principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs. He previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI and is known for foundational work on score-based diffusion models.

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Rowan Zellers portrait
Researcher 2 reports

Rowan Zellers

Google Gemini / OpenAI

Researcher at Thinking Machines, formerly at OpenAI, working on real-time multimodal systems across language, vision, and voice.

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United States
Adrien Ecoffet portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Adrien Ecoffet

OpenAI

Research scientist at OpenAI working on AI agents, large models, and reinforcement learning. Previously worked as an applied scientist at Uber and completed a PhD in computer science at ENS Paris-Saclay under Marc Schoenauer and Olivier Teytaud.

OpenAI
United States 4 likes
Xin Hu portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Xin Hu

OpenAI

Xin Hu is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI focused on privacy and security. Xin previously held cybersecurity and machine learning roles at Robinhood, Pinterest, IBM Research, and Intel, and earned a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan.

OpenAI
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Shantanu Jain portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Shantanu Jain

OpenAI

Shantanu Jain has worked on language models at OpenAI since 2020, focusing on training data and infrastructure. His homepage also highlights work in Python's open-source and static type-checking ecosystems.

OpenAI
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Josh Achiam portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Josh Achiam

OpenAI

Joshua (Josh) Achiam is Chief Futurist at OpenAI. He joined OpenAI in 2017 as a research scientist and has worked on AI safety research and operations, AI impacts research, and educational resources (including Spinning Up in Deep RL).

OpenAI
Tao Xu portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Tao Xu

OpenAI

Research scientist at OpenAI working on intelligent agents, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics; he previously completed a PhD in computer science at Penn State.

OpenAI
Tomer Kaftan portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Tomer Kaftan

OpenAI

Researcher working on machine learning systems and infrastructure at OpenAI. He earned his PhD from UCLA.

OpenAI
Raphael Ho portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Raphael Ho

OpenAI

Research scientist at OpenAI whose public profiles describe work on generative AI and reinforcement learning, after PhD study at the University of Cambridge.

OpenAI
Arvind Neelakantan portrait
Researcher 2 reports

Arvind Neelakantan

OpenAI

Research scientist at Google DeepMind working on Gemini. He previously worked at Meta, OpenAI, and Google Brain, and earned a PhD from UMass Amherst.

OpenAI
United States
Jerry Tworek portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Jerry Tworek

OpenAI

Research scientist at OpenAI whose public profiles highlight multi-agent alignment, scalable training, and reinforcement learning.

OpenAI
Shengjia Zhao portrait
Researcher 2 reports

Shengjia Zhao

OpenAI / Meta AI

AI researcher and former OpenAI scientist who became chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs in July 2025; public academic sources also show earlier Stanford and Tsinghua training.

OpenAIMeta AI
Yufei Guo portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Yufei Guo

OpenAI

Yufei Guo is an assistant professor in the UCLA Computer Science Department. His public profiles note prior work as a research scientist at OpenAI and research interests in AI agents, reinforcement learning, and large language models.

OpenAI
Tom Henighan portrait
Researcher 1 reports

Tom Henighan

OpenAI

Works on large language model interpretability at Anthropic; previously worked on scaling laws at OpenAI and ML engineering at Beehive AI, and completed a Ph.D. in physics at Stanford.

OpenAI
David Dohan portrait
Researcher 3 reports

David Dohan

Google Gemini / OpenAI

David Dohan is a computer scientist at OpenAI studying scalable alignment of language models and generally intelligent reasoning systems. His personal site also notes prior work at Google Brain on foundation model programs, code generation, protein engineering, and scientific reasoning.

Google GeminiOpenAI
Alec Radford portrait
Researcher 3 reports

Alec Radford

OpenAI

Alec Radford is a researcher and a co-author of the GPT-4 Technical Report. His GitHub profile links to his personal website at newmu.github.io.

OpenAI
United States

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