Jakub Pachocki
Also known as meret
Chief scientist of OpenAI.
At a glance
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- Jakub Pachocki is OpenAI's chief scientist, a role he took in May 2024 after Ilya Sutskever left.
- He was born in Gdańsk and studied computer science at the University of Warsaw.
- He earned a PhD at Carnegie Mellon under Gary Miller.
- He joined OpenAI in 2017 and led the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five.
- Before that he was a top competitive programmer, winning Google Code Jam in 2012.
Why it matters
- For people following OpenAI's research: he sets its scientific direction.
Key facts
- Current role
- Chief scientist, OpenAI2
- Born
- 1991, Gdańsk, Poland1
- Education
- Computer science at the University of Warsaw; PhD at Carnegie Mellon under Gary Miller1
- Before OpenAI
- Facebook software engineering intern from 2011 to 2012; postdoctoral work at Harvard and the Simons Institute1
- OpenAI
- Joined in 2017; research director from 2021; chief scientist since May 20241
- Led
- Development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five1
- Competitive programming
- IOI silver (2009); ICPC World Finals gold, second overall (2012); Google Code Jam champion (2012)1
- September 2026
- Essay "An Alien Mind", warning that no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling safely at the current pace2
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