Jerry Tworek
Jerry Tworek is the CEO and co-founder of Core Automation, an AI lab he launched in 2026 after leaving OpenAI. During his seven years at OpenAI, where he served as VP of Research, he led the reasoning teams behind the o1 and o3 models and was a primary contributor to Codex, the model powering GitHub Copilot. He is also known for his earlier work on training verifiers for mathematical reasoning and developing sim2real transfer techniques for a robot hand that solved a Rubik's Cube. Before his AI research career, he worked as a quantitative trader in Amsterdam.
“Core Automation is a lab created to build models that continuously learn from deployment. We believe that Transformers are incapable of continual learning. There's no way how to put continual learning on Transformers. So we know we have to find a different architecture.”
Source→“Core Automation is a lab created to build models that continuously learn from deployment... Our quest is to find that new architecture, find that Transformer replacement. And we want to build the most automated lab to do it.”
Source→“Co-founder of Core Automation; former VP at OpenAI where he led the Strawberry and reasoning teams and was central to scaling reinforcement learning.”
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