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# OpenAI

Company [San Francisco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/san-francisco/), United Statesin the agglomeration of [San Francisco Bay Area](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/san-francisco/)

- [Website](https://openai.com/)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/05wx9n238)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I4210161460)

[**10** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/#works) · [**60** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/authors/) · [**14,711** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/#works) · [**6,531** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/#works)

## People (60)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at OpenAI: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (8)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Ilya Sutskever](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilya-sutskever/) — 2016–2022 on 14 papers · 13 papers here · 70,805 citations
- [Alec Radford](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-radford/) — 2020–2023 on 9 papers · 10 papers here · 38,919 citations
- [Mark Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-chen/) — 2020–2022 on 5 papers · 6 papers here · 27,213 citations
- [Gabriel Goh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-goh/) — 2019–2021 on 15 papers · 2 papers here · 24,633 citations
- [Pamela Mishkin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pamela-mishkin/) — current · 2021–2025 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 23,765 citations
- [Lukasz Kaiser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lukasz-kaiser/) — 2021–2022 on 4 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 8 papers here · 51,679 citations
- [Lilian Weng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lilian-weng/) — 2019–2023 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 16,754 citations
- [Alex Beutel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-beutel/) — 2023–2025 on 8 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 3 papers here · 4,083 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (52)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Jong Wook Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jong-wook-kim/) — 2021–2022 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 26,561 citations
- [Sandhini Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandhini-agarwal/) — current · 2021–2026 on 3 papers · 5 papers here · 24,776 citations
- [Gretchen Krueger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gretchen-krueger/) — 2021 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 25,370 citations
- [Girish Sastry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/girish-sastry/) — 2021–2024 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 24,145 citations
- [Greg Brockman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-brockman/) — 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 21,561 citations
- [Scott Gray](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-gray/) — 2020–2021 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 19,016 citations
- [Christine McLeavey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-mcleavey/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 17,549 citations
- [Jason Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-wei/) — current · 2025 on 1 paper · 16 papers here · 44,453 citations
- [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/) — 2019–2021 on 3 papers · 8 papers here · 15,528 citations
- [Jack Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-clark/) — 2019–2021 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 12,666 citations
- [Ian Goodfellow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-goodfellow/) — 2016–2017 on 4 papers · 5 papers here · 32,142 citations
- [Barret Zoph](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barret-zoph/) — current · 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 8 papers here · 36,869 citations
- [Hyung Won Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/) — current · 2025 on 1 paper · 14 papers here · 24,185 citations
- [Amelia Glaese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amelia-glaese/) — current · 2025–2026 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 4,606 citations
- [Eric Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/) — current · 2025 on 1 paper · 12 papers here · 11,062 citations
- [Stanislas Polu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stanislas-polu/) — 2020–2021 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 793 citations
- [Jesse Michael Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesse-michael-han/) — 2021 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 784 citations
- [Wojciech Zaremba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wojciech-zaremba/) — 2015–2021 on 7 papers · 5 papers here · 31,434 citations
- [John Schulman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-schulman/) — current · 2016–2025 on 11 papers · 7 papers here · 22,008 citations
- [Heewoo Jun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heewoo-jun/) — 2020–2022 on 4 papers · 5 papers here · 21,753 citations
- [Adam Lerer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-lerer/) — current · 2024 on 1 paper · 3 papers here · 21,678 citations
- [Nitish Shirish Keskar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nitish-shirish-keskar/) — employment (Wikidata) · 5 papers here · 20,310 citations
- [Jan Leike](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-leike/) — 2021–2025 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 19,724 citations
- [Jerry Tworek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jerry-tworek/) — current · 2021–2026 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 19,666 citations
- [Rowan Zellers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rowan-zellers/) — 2021–2023 on 5 papers · 5 papers here · 17,217 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 60 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/authors/)

## Works in our library (10)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/radford-2021-learning-transferable-visual-models-natural/) — Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, et al. · 2021 · 8,295 citations
- [Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/radford-2022-robust-speech-recognition-large-scale/) — Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Tao Xu, et al. · 2022 · 2,497 citations
- [Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramesh-2021-zero-shot-text-image-generation/) — Aditya Ramesh, Mikhail Pavlov, Gabriel Goh, et al. · 2021 · 1,423 citations
- [Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carlini-2020-extracting-training-data-large-language/) — Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramer, Eric Wallace, et al. · 2020 · 901 citations
- [Adversarial Training Methods for Semi-Supervised Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miyato-2016-adversarial-training-methods-semi-supervised/) — Takeru Miyato, Andrew M. Dai, Ian Goodfellow · 2016 · 416 citations
- [A Holistic Approach to Undesired Content Detection in the Real World](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/markov-2022-holistic-approach-undesired-content-detection/) — Todor Markov, Chong Zhang, Sandhini Agarwal, et al. · 2022 · 254 citations
- [MiniF2F: a cross-system benchmark for formal Olympiad-level mathematics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2021-minif2f-cross-system-benchmark-formal/) — Kunhao Zheng, Jesse Michael Han, Stanislas Polu · 2021 · 254 citations
- [Humanity's Last Exam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/) — Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, et al. · 2025 · 235 citations
- [Generative Language Modeling for Automated Theorem Proving](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/polu-2020-generative-language-modeling-automated-theorem/) — Stanislas Polu, Ilya Sutskever · 2020 · 235 citations
- [Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2021-recursively-summarizing-books-human-feedback/) — Jeff Wu, Long Ouyang, Daniel M. Ziegler, et al. · 2021 · 201 citations

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Fields

[Mathematics & statistics (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Computing & GPUs (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Google 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Stanford University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [University of California, Berkeley 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) [Harvard University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) [Northeastern University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) [École Polytechnique 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique/) [University of Washington 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) [University of Oxford 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) [Carnegie Mellon University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [University of Cambridge 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) [Microsoft 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [Johns Hopkins University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/)

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at OpenAI; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.