Technical University of Dortmund
Aaron RogersCo-founder, hardware · River AIFounder↗Both at River AI
Researcher · Founder
Igor Babuschkin
River AICo-founder and CEO
Babuschkin helped develop AlphaStar, DeepMind's system for mastering the strategy game StarCraft II, and later contributed to GPT-4 at OpenAI. He co-founded xAI and now leads River AI, which is developing personal AI systems controlled by their users.
Career & education
Current roleRiver AIJan 2026-presentCo-founder and CEO
River AIJan 2026-presentPreviously
SpaceXAI2023-2025Co-founder
Google DeepMind2022-2023Senior Staff Research Engineer
OpenAI2020-2022Member of Technical Staff
SpaceXAI2023-2025Google DeepMind2022-2023OpenAI2020-2022Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations77,881As of Oct 20, '26
citations+4,779Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
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Selected contributions
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Steven Adler, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Ilge Akkaya, Florencia Leoni Aleman and others ·Reported GPT-4's capabilities, limitations and safety evaluations as a text-and-image input model.
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
With Oriol Vinyals, Wojciech Czarnecki, Michaël Mathieu, Andrew Dudzik, Junyoung Chung, David H. Choi, Richard Powell and others ·AlphaStar reached Grandmaster level in StarCraft II through competitive AI training.
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