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199 The OpenAI Coder Who Spun Tech On its Head

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Jon Victor @ The Information 3 place · 04/06/2023 09:00 EDT

The OpenAI Coder Who Spun Tech On its Head

Greg Brockman needed a win.

In 2017, Brockman—then chief technology officer of OpenAI, a 50-person nonprofit at the time—was worried about getting left in the dust by bigger rivals like DeepMind, an AI lab owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet. He also was concerned that OpenAI might fall into the trap that had ensnared other artificial intelligence labs, where researchers fiddled around with projects that were never put into practice.

So Brockman spearheaded a plan to get OpenAI’s researchers and en

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