OpenAI

Sam Altman

American entrepreneur and investor; former president of Y Combinator; co-founded OpenAI and has led it through its transition from nonprofit to capped-profit and now public benefit structure and rapid growth of ChatGPT and GPT-4-class models.

Mira Murati

Leads engineering and research teams responsible for products such as ChatGPT, GPT-4-class models, and DALL·E; has become a prominent public face of OpenAI's technology roadmap and safety initiatives.

Brad Lightcap

Oversees operations, partnerships, and commercial strategy, including major deals such as the Microsoft partnership and enterprise go-to-market.

Greg Brockman

Former CTO of Stripe; co-founded OpenAI and has overseen engineering and product strategy for its large-scale models and infrastructure.

Jason Kwon

Leads corporate strategy, including governance structure changes (nonprofit to capped-profit to PBC), fundraising strategy, and long-term AGI roadmap positioning.

Ilya Sutskever

Leading deep learning researcher, co-author of influential work on sequence-to-sequence models and ImageNet; previously a key researcher at Google Brain before co-founding OpenAI.

Diane Yoon

Leads people operations, recruiting, and culture initiatives, including diversity and inclusion programs and remote/hybrid work policies.

Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; early proponent and funder of OpenAI focused on AI safety concerns. Left the board in 2018.

Jan Leike

Led research on aligning superhuman AI systems with human values and safety constraints at OpenAI before departing in 2024.

Wojciech Zaremba

Machine learning researcher focused on robotics and deep learning; previously at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Google.

John Schulman

Leading researcher in reinforcement learning; contributed to Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and other algorithms.