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Alec Radford

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Radford led the original GPT work, showing that a model trained broadly on text could adapt to many language tasks. He later helped create CLIP, which connects words with images, and Whisper, which transcribes speech across languages. Few researchers have shaped so many widely used model families.
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Last editorial review: August 7, 2026Citation Trend
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