
Jiayi WengResearcher
OpenAI
Member of Technical Staff
via OpenAI
Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI
McLaughlin studies how to scale reinforcement learning and human feedback toward the compute used in pretraining. At OpenAI he helped train several GPT-5 generations; he also created AidanBench to test model creativity and earlier contributed to the open Leela Chess Zero system.
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