Researcher · Founder · Executive
David Luan
Current role not listed
Luan has pursued AI systems that learn practical abilities and act through software. He co-founded Adept, contributed to OpenAI Five, and later led Amazon's AGI Lab and Nova Act, a system for completing multi-step tasks in web browsers.
Career & education
Amazon
OpenAI
Adept AI
Yale UniversityWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Selected contributions
Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners
GPT-2 showed how learning to predict text could support tasks without separate training.
PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
With Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin, Maarten Bosma, Gaurav Mishra, Adam Roberts, Paul Barham and others ·Presented PaLM, a large language model demonstrating gains in reasoning, translation and coding.
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