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Ilya Sutskever Departs OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki Appointed New Chief Scientist

·2024.05.15 03:00

Key point

OpenAI's **Ilya Sutskever** has departed, and **Jakub Pachocki** has been appointed as the new Chief Scientist.

Details

Ilya Sutskever, a key figure at OpenAI, is leaving the company. Sam Altman announced that Ilya is departing for a personally meaningful project, and expressed deep gratitude for his vision and contributions.

Succeeding him, Jakub Pachocki has been appointed as the new Chief Scientist. Jakub has led groundbreaking research at OpenAI since 2017.

Jakub Pachocki's key career highlights include:

  • Leading the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five
  • Research on large-scale RL (Reinforcement Learning) and Deep Learning optimization
  • Redefining the vision centered on scaling deep learning systems

He received his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, and is expected to play a key role in OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity going forward.

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