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Alec Radford

AI researcher, lead author of GPT papers, formerly at OpenAI at thinking-machines-lab

Alec Radford is an American AI researcher renowned for pioneering work in generative AI at OpenAI, including leading the development of foundational GPT models, CLIP, and DALL-E. He co-founded Indico and joined Thinking Machines Lab as an advisor in March 2025. His contributions to transformer-based architectures and multimodal AI have been foundational to modern generative AI systems.