Profiles of OpenAI's heads of research Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, where they discuss the path toward more capable reasoning models and superalignment
For the past couple of years, OpenAI has felt like a one-man brand. With his showbiz style and fundraising glitz … X: @sama and @toddalee X: Sam Altman / @sama : i usually think articles like this mi...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta
The cutthroat recruitment efforts to land the smartest minds in Silicon Valley have hit a feverish new peak in recent days X: @berber_jin1 X: Berber Jin / @berber_jin1 : We have the definitive story o...
Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp”
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
A security researcher details how he discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation by analyzing the code using OpenAI's o3 API
Now finding a Linux kernel-level zero day is as simple as knowing how to prompt. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h... @davidcrespo : key detail in this very good post about finding a novel vuln with LLMs: e...
Q&A with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen about GPT-4.5, why it is not GPT-5, how it differs from a reasoning model, the AI scaling wall, DeepSeek, more
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When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority”
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During a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman says GPT-5 likely won't come this year as OpenAI faces “a lot of limitations and hard decisions” in allocating compute resources
It is coming soon, under one name or another Shraddha Sharma / Cryptopolitan : ChatGPT wants to take on Google, and Microsoft with new launch TechRadar : ChatGPT-5 won't be coming in 2025, according t...
OpenAI Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew and a research VP, Barret Zoph, are leaving the company; OpenAI promotes Mark Chen to its new SVP of Research
OpenAI's chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing.
Sources: after recent OpenAI shakeups, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, post-training lead Barret Zoph, frontiers research lead Mark Chen, others gain prominence
OpenAI's upper management has been a bit of a revolving door lately. The last few months have seen a number of high-profile departures …
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta's Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture
Ng states that the idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie being spread by big tech in the hope of triggering heavy regulation that would shut down competit...