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Christopher Berner

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Distinguished Engineer at OpenAI

Berner helped build OpenAI Five, which learned through self-play to defeat world champions in the strategy game Dota 2. He later led the supercomputing work behind GPT-4, helping coordinate the enormous clusters of computers required to train a frontier model reliably.

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Background

Current role
Distinguished Engineer
Previously
Education
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26114,04093,87873,715Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Aug 1, '26Sep 1, '26
112,595citations as of Sep 1, '26-1,445 since Aug 1, '26
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