Jared Kaplan

Jared Daniel Kaplan is a theoretical physicist and artificial intelligence researcher. He is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of Physics & Astronomy, and a co-founder and chief science officer of Anthropic.

Education Kaplan attended the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy during high school. He received a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Stanford University and a PhD in physics from Harvard University. His doctoral thesis is titled Aspects of holography, advised by Nima Arkani-Hamed.

Academic career and physics research Kaplan’s research interests include quantum gravity, holography (AdS/CFT), conformal field theory, and related topics in particle physics and cosmology. where he co-authored Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020), which reported that empirically, the performance of language models steadily improves with their size and the amount of data and compute used for training. He is also a co-author of Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020), which introduced GPT-3. At the company, he was also involved in the development of Codex. In this role, Kaplan determines the safety assessments and precautions to adopt before model release.

Honors and recognition Kaplan was a Hertz Fellow (2005). He has also received a Sloan Research Fellowship and an NSF CAREER award (PHY-1454083).

Selected works Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020).

Personal life , Forbes estimated Kaplan's net worth at $3.7billion. He lives in Pacifica, California, and has a son.