Meet the Genius Behind GPT-4

OpenAI has released its latest version of the language model, GPT-4, which it calls a "milestone in our effort in scaling up deep learning". While the company credits the achievement to a team effort, for OpenAI's founder Sam Altman, one person stands out as a driving force behind the pretraining effort – Jakub Pachocki. GPT-4 was truly a team effort from our entire company, but the overall leadership and technical vision of Jakub Pachocki for the pretraining effort was remarkable and we wouldn't be here without it Pachocki has been with OpenAI since 2017, and his technical vision and leadership played a crucial role in the development of GPT-4. According to Altman, "we wouldn't be here without him". In a recent interview with MIT, he said "That fundamental formula has not changed much for years," talking about the evolution of GPT models since the first version released in 2018.