Jakub Pachocki

Jakub Pachocki (born 1991) is a Polish computer scientist and former competitive programmer. He is best known as OpenAI's chief scientist and for his role in overseeing development of GPT-4.

Background Pachocki was born in 1991 in Gdańsk, Poland. In high school, he was a six-time finalist of the . In 2009, he qualified for the International Olympiad in Informatics, winning a silver medal.

Pachocki obtained his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Warsaw.

Career After graduation, Pachocki did postdoctoral work at Harvard University and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

OpenAI In 2017, Pachocki joined OpenAI. In 2021, he became OpenAI's research director where he led the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five. In May 2024, he became chief scientist after his mentor Ilya Sutskever left the company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called Pachocki "easily one of the greatest minds of our generation".

Competitive programming achievements

International Olympiad in Informatics: Silver medal (2009) International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals: Gold medal (second place overall in 2012) Google Code Jam: Champion (2012), Third place (2011) Facebook Hacker Cup: Second place (2013) TopCoder Open Algorithm: Second place (2012)

A more comprehensive list of achievements can be found at the Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame website.