“GPT-4o would not have happened without the vision, talent, conviction, and determination of @prafdhar over a long period of time. that (along with the work of many others) led to what i hope will turn out to be a revolution in how we use computers,” Sam Altman tweeted on X (formerly Twitter) in reply to Dhariwal’s tweet that reads: GPT-4o (o for “omni”) is the first model to come out of the omni team, OpenAI’s first natively fully multimodal model.This launch was a huge org-wide effort, but I’d like to give a shout out to a few of my awesome team members who made this magical model even possible!
Who is Prafulla Dhariwal?
“I’m a research scientist at OpenAI working on generative models and unsupervised learning. Previously, I was an undergrad at MIT studying computers, math and physics. I’m from Pune and currently live in San Francisco. My name sounds like truffle, but with a P,” reads Dhariwal’s bio on his website.
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Dhariwal is a graduate in Computer Science, Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a GPA of 5. He has been associated with Open AI since 2016, from where he started his career as a research intern. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at OpenAI. He is also associated with GPT-3, DALL-E 2- text-to-image platform, music generator Jukebox, and reversible generative model Glow.
Dhariwal had received several awards in this academic career. In 2009, he won the National Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India followed by gold medal at the International Astronomy Olympiad in China. In later years he won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad and the International Physics Olympiad, respectively.
Before joining OpenAI, he worked with Quantitative Analyst Intern at The D.E. Shaw Group where he built a model for predicting cancellation activity on US stock exchanges. He also worked with Computer Vision Group, CSAIL, MIT on a deep learning model for extracting depth information from multiple images of a scene.