Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Formerly Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Ex-Physicist.

The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀 Our twin missions are to train better LLMs, and serve them more cheaply Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design, reliable scaling, and faster optimization
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Please welcome GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the GPT-6 universe. GPT-6 Sol and Luna build on the advances behind GPT-6 Astra, bringing much of its strengths into faster and more affordable models to support work at scale. We’ve also made caching and inference more efficient, and we’re passing the savings directly to you: 50% lower API prices for Sol and Luna compared with GPT‑5.6 promotional pricing.
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The London office played a crucial role in training GPT-6 Astra, and we're arranging a dinner with the research community to celebrate! A mix of OAI leaders and researchers will be there, apply at: events.openai.com/gpt-6-lond…
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Not to forget our friends across the pond.... Next week we'll host a second smaller get-together to celebrate GPT-6 in London! Our team there delivered core contributions to Astra, and we'd love to celebrate with you :) events.openai.com/gpt-6-lond… (click my link not Sam's)
We want to celebrate with people using GPT-6. We did this for GPT-5.5 and it was really fun. We’re getting together in SF on September 16 to talk about the model, what we should build next, and mostly just to hang out. Apply by Sep 10: gpt6-launch-event.openai.cha…
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I enjoyed using Astra at work: for the first time in my AI usage this model actually proposes reasonable ML hypotheses. If you want to work on pretraining Astra successors, our London training team is hiring strong researchers! jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/6fdc…
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I think GPT 5.6 is pretty good
We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.
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Excited to wake up to a meeting invite from Noam! Reminder: OpenAI is also hiring top pre-training researchers in London. Come work with me @SavinovNikolay and the team on architecture, long-context, science of scaling, and more! Contact london-training-hiring@openai.com
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
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I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
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Excited to share that I’ve joined OpenAI in London to work on pretraining! I’ve spent the last few years on pretraining and long-context, and I’ll be helping grow the London team. We’re hiring exceptional researchers, please reach out: london-training-hiring@openai.com
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Extremely excited to work with Nikolay! The OpenAI London team has led huge wins on every model release we've had in the last year, and is all-around awesome :) Nikolay is an incredible addition, and if you're interested in joining, please reach out to him or I!
Excited to share that I’ve joined OpenAI in London to work on pretraining! I’ve spent the last few years on pretraining and long-context, and I’ll be helping grow the London team. We’re hiring exceptional researchers, please reach out: london-training-hiring@openai.com
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one take that always ages really badly is that the models are intelligent enough and nobody can really notice the improvements anymore
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Anthropic chose FreeBSD to showcase their Mythos zero-days. In the latest release, 8 CVEs were announced: 3 found by Anthropic, 3 discovered by AISLE's AI (!) AISLE is matching Mythos 3-for-3 on zero-days on the very codebase of their choosing at a fraction of the cost
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is the second model to complete one of our multi-step cyber-attack simulations end-to-end 🧵
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A big win born in @OpenAI London! 🇬🇧
GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster. We have optimized our inference stack for all API customers. Same model. Same weights. Lower latency.
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lots of exciting work happening in our london office!
The new London Training team @OpenAI has already had remarkable impact internally, alongside our phenomenal SF colleagues. I'm so excited to now see our contributions start to land in production!
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The new London Training team @OpenAI has already had remarkable impact internally, alongside our phenomenal SF colleagues. I'm so excited to now see our contributions start to land in production!
Replying to @OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Thinking evals
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One of the best things in my career has been watching all the things Brain residents have gone on to do. @JeffDean, @ilyasut, Samy, Leslie, and co sure put together an amazing program. Thanks a lot!
I love seeing all the amazing things our Google Brain Residents and AI Residency Program cohorts have gone on to do! @hyhieu226's post spurred me to dig up a blog post and video from that era. Blog: "Google Brain Residency Program - 7 months in and looking ahead" share.google/pe5yZVCNXASL2v1… Video: piped.video/watch?v=KNstfq…
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Pretty sure we already have 😂
🌶️ hot take 🌶️ > we should normalize training on the test set yes, you read that right. no, I'm not joking. and, yes... I have taken ML 101 👉 here's why this is crucial for future multimodal LLM research [1/n] 🧵
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Riding in a @Waymo autonomous vehicle is an amazing futuristic experience, straight out of science fiction. So excited to see the service coming to my hometown in London 🇬🇧! Can't wait for Londoners to try them out soon!
We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Londoners in 2026 💂🇬🇧
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If anyone is interested on working in an exciting team at the frontier of LLM research in London, please reach out to me or Sam.
The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀 Our twin missions are to train better LLMs, and serve them more cheaply Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design, reliable scaling, and faster optimization
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Sam & team are exceptional and we’re looking for more exceptional people! The London team is phenomenal :) if you’re excited to make the best models in the world even better, come join us!
The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀 Our twin missions are to train better LLMs, and serve them more cheaply Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design, reliable scaling, and faster optimization
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