TECH - Meet Jakub Pachocki OpenAI's New Chief Scientist After Ilya Sutskever's Exit: Sam Altman Hails Him As 'One Of The Greatest Minds Of Our Generation' | Benzinga
Jakub Pachocki is OpenAI's new chief scientist, taking over from Ilya Sutskever who has left the company he co-founded after several months of controversies.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described Pachocki as "easily one of the greatest minds of our generation."
But who is Pachocki, the man in charge of research at the world's largest AI startup?
Cut From The Same Cloth As Ilya
Pachocki has been the Research Director at the Microsoft Corp.-backed (NASDAQ:MSFT) OpenAI since 2017 and Altman says he has "run many of our most important projects."
Although Sutskever has maintained silence since his failed "palace coup" against Altman in November, Pachocki taking over the reins might not be all that different.
OpenAI's new chief scientist calls Sutskever his mentor. "Ilya introduced me to the world of deep learning research, and has been a mentor to me, and a great collaborator for many ...