Greg Brockman

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Greg Brockman
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Brockman at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco (2019)
Born (1987-11-29) November 29, 1987 (age 38)
Thompson, North Dakota, U.S.
Alma mater Harvard University (transferred out)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (dropped out)
Occupations
  • Software engineer
  • investor
  • entrepreneur
Known for
SpouseAnna Brockman
Parent(s)Ron Brockman and Ellen Feldman [1]
Website gregbrockman.com

Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer. He is co-founder [2] and president of OpenAI. [3] He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became CTO [4] in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015 [5] to co-found OpenAI, where he also served as CTO. [6] [7] [8]

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Early life

Brockman was born in Thompson, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School, where he excelled in mathematics, chemistry, and computer science. [6] [9] He won a silver medal in the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad [10] and became the first finalist from North Dakota to participate in the Intel science talent search since 1973. [11] In 2003, 2005, and 2007, he attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students. [12] In 2008, Brockman enrolled in Harvard University, but left a year later, before briefly enrolling at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [6] [13]

Career

In 2010, he dropped out of MIT to join Stripe, a company founded by Patrick Collison, his MIT classmate, and John Collison. In 2013, he became Stripe's first CTO, while the company grew from 5 to 205 employees. [8] [14] Brockman left Stripe in May 2015. [14]

Brockman met with Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and led the recruiting of the OpenAI founding team. Many of its members, including Ilya Sutskever, were top AI research talent that left high paying jobs for the opportunity at OpenAI. [15] [16] He co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 alongside Altman, Sutskever and others. [17] The company initially operated from Brockman's living room. [18]

He led various projects at OpenAI, including OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, a Dota 2 bot. [19] [20]

On February 14, 2019, OpenAI announced that they had developed a new large language model called GPT-2, [21] but kept it private due to their concern for its potential misuse. They released the model to a limited group of beta testers in May 2019. [6]

On March 14, 2023, in a live video demo, Brockman unveiled GPT-4, the fourth iteration in the GPT series. [22] [7] [23]

On November 17, 2023, along with the firing of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman was told he had been removed from the board. Sutskever supplied the board with a document of alleged bullying by Brockman. Mira Murati said Brockman's relationship with Altman made it impossible for her to do her job; and "Altman fielded many requests from OpenAI employees to rein in Brockman". [24] Brockman was to report to Murati, [25] [26] but on November 17, he announced that he had quit the company. [27]

On November 20, 2023, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Brockman and former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman would join Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. [28] The following day, after a deal was reached to reinstate Altman as CEO, Brockman returned to OpenAI. [29] Brockman went on sabbatical in August 2024 [30] and returned in November 2024. [31]

Personal life

In November 2019, Brockman married his girlfriend, Anna. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "GF student named national science semifinalist". Grand Forks Herald. 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  2. ↑ Geron, Tomio (2019-03-12). "Nonprofit AI Lab Alters Structure to Build Massive Computing Power". The Wall Street Journal . ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  3. ↑ Sam Altman (May 5, 2022). "OpenAI leadership team update". OpenAI . Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ↑ Peterson, Andrea (2015-12-14). "Group wants to make sure artificial intelligence is developed responsibly". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  5. ↑ Biz Carson (May 6, 2015). "One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company". Insider . Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Hao, Karen (February 17, 2020). "The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI's bid to save the world". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  7. 1 2 Wiggers, Kyle (2023-03-15). "Interview with OpenAI's Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn't perfect, but neither are you". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  8. 1 2 Popkin, Helen A. S. "30 Under 30 In Enterprise Tech: Reinventing Business With Artificial Intelligence". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  9. ↑ "Gregory Brockman". The Creativity Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  10. ↑ "38th ICHO, 2006". International Chemistry Olympiad. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  11. ↑ "Greg Brockman, Intel Science Talent Search finalist, Grand Forks". Grand Forks Herald. 2007-02-04. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  12. ↑ "58th Annual Summary of High School Results and Awards" (PDF). Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  13. ↑ "Ivy League Dropout Greg Brockman Is Leading the AI Revolution – C-Suite Spotlight". 23 August 2022. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  14. 1 2 Carson, Biz. "One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  15. ↑ Cade Metz (April 27, 2016). "Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free". Wired . Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  16. ↑ Metz, Cade (April 19, 2018). "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2025.
  17. ↑ Tremayne-Pengelly, Alexandra (2024-07-12). "Only 4 of OpenAI's 11 Founders Are Still With the Company—Where Are the Rest of Them?". Observer. Retrieved 2025-08-17.
  18. ↑ Seetharaman, Deepa (September 27, 2024). "Turning OpenAI Into a Real Business Is Tearing It Apart" . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  19. ↑ Statt, Nick (2019-04-13). "OpenAI's Dota 2 AI steamrolls world champion e-sports team with back-to-back victories". The Verge. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  20. ↑ Tsukayama, Hayley (June 28, 2018). "OpenAI's bot beat a human at video games last year. Now it will take on five at once". The Washington Post .
  21. ↑ Vincent, James (2019-02-14). "OpenAI's new multitalented AI writes, translates, and slanders". The Verge. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  22. ↑ Chan, Kelvin (March 15, 2023). "What can ChatGPT maker's new AI model GPT-4 do?". The Independent . Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  23. ↑ Brockman, Greg (2023-04-20), "Greg Brockman: The inside story of ChatGPT's astonishing potential", Ted Talk , Ted.com, retrieved 2023-04-23
  24. ↑ Hagey, Keach (May 20, 2025). The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 286–287. ISBN   978-1324075967.
  25. ↑ "Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today". X. November 18, 2023. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  26. ↑ "OpenAI announces leadership transition". openai.com. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  27. ↑ "After learning today's news, this is the message I sent to the OpenAI team". X. November 17, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  28. ↑ "Satya Nadella on X: "We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett…" / X". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  29. ↑ Heath, Alex (22 November 2023). "Breaking: Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI". The Verge.
  30. ↑ Seetharaman, Deepa; Jin, Berber; Dotan, Tom (September 25, 2024). "OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company" . The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  31. ↑ "OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman returns to ChatGPT maker". Reuters. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
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