Alec Radford
Alec Radford is an American artificial intelligence researcher who worked at OpenAI from 2016 to 2024. He is best known as the lead author of the foundational GPT papers, including GPT (2018) and GPT-2 (2019), as well as CLIP (2021) and Whisper (2022). He left OpenAI in December 2024 to pursue independent research and joined Thinking Machines Lab as an advisor around March 2025.
“Alec Radford is probably the most important, not very well-known researcher in the whole history of the field... He did the work that really became the GPT series, among many other important things... everybody will tell you before they finish their statement that just one of the nicest, most positive, best people they've ever interacted with.”
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