Sébastien Bubeck

Sébastien Bubeck is a French-American computer scientist who currently works on AI at OpenAI, having joined the organization in October 2024. He previously served as Vice President of Applied Research and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft, where he led the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research Redmond. He is best known for his contributions to online learning, optimization, and the study of deep neural networks, including co-authoring a 2023 paper that observed sparks of artificial general intelligence in GPT-4. Prior to his industry roles, he was an assistant professor at Princeton University.