John Schulman
A researcher whose team at OpenAI developed Web GPT, an early web-searching LLM.
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The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
Latent Space
Mentioned for his ICML talk on proxy objectives for RLHF, discussing issues like ChatGPT being verbose and having self-doubt or refusals.
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #17
Lex Fridman
Researcher at OpenAI who developed the PPO algorithm; his surprise at the emergent long-term planning behaviors seen when PPO was scaled up for the Dota project is highlighted.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas
Y Combinator
A researcher whose team at OpenAI developed Web GPT, an early web-searching LLM.
OpenAI Co-Founder on the AI Race, the Sam Altman Firing, and What Comes Next
The Knowledge Project Podcast
Mentioned as an early member who joined OpenAI and was instrumental in developing the technical plan.
Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch | Spring 2026 | Lecture 15: Mid/Post-Training
Stanford Online
A proponent of reinforcement learning who argues that RL and training are necessary to teach models what they know and don't know, and to calibrate them.