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Alec Radford

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🇺🇸 American

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, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26401,640333,315264,989Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
401,640citations as of Sep 1, '26+8,644 since Aug 1, '26
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