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John Schulman
Chief Scientist at Thinking Machines Lab
OpenAI co-founder and AI researcher who joined Thinking Machines Lab as Chief Scientist in 2025 after briefly working at Anthropic on AI alignment. Schulman has deep expertise in reinforcement learning and AI safety, contributing to foundational work on language model training methodologies.
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