Early life and education
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 only a year later, before briefly enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [6] [13]
Career
In 2010, he dropped out of MIT to join Stripe, Inc., a company founded by Patrick Collison, an MIT classmate, and his brother, John Collison. In 2013, he became Stripe's first-ever CTO, and the company grew from 5 to 205 employees. [8] [14] Brockman left Stripe in May 2015. [14]
Brockman helped Sam Altman and Elon Musk create the OpenAI founding team, recruiting several of its members, including Ilya Sutskever. Many of these were top AI research talent that left high paying jobs for the opportunity at OpenAI. [15] He co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 alongside Altman, Sutskever and others. [16] The company was initially run from Brockman's living room. [17]
He led various prominent projects early on at OpenAI, including OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, a Dota 2 bot. [18] [19]
On February 14, 2019, OpenAI announced that they had developed a new large language model called GPT-2, [20] but kept it private due to their concern for its potential misuse. They finally 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, and the newest language model created by OpenAI. [21] [7] [22]
On November 17, 2023, along with the firing of Sam Altman from OpenAI, Greg Brockman was told he was being removed from the board. Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey reported Sutskever supplied the board with a document of alleged bullying behavior by Brockman; chief technology officer Mira Murati said Brockman's relationship with Altman made it almost impossible for her to do her job; and "Altman fielded many requests from OpenAI employees to rein in Brockman." [23] Brockman was set to report to interim CEO Murati, [24] [25] but later on November 17, he announced that he had quit the company. [26]
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. [27] The following day, after a deal was reached to reinstate Altman as CEO, Brockman returned to OpenAI. [28] Brockman was on sabbatical since August 2024 and announced to join at the end of the year. [29] In November 2024, he returned to the company after three months of absence. [30]
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