Google Brain
Dartmouth College
Denny ZhouResearch Scientist, Meta Superintelligence · MetaResearcher↗
Researcher
Jason Wei
Career & education
Current roleMetaJul 2025-presentResearch Scientist, MSL
MetaJul 2025-presentPreviously
OpenAIFeb 2023-2025Research Scientist
OpenAIFeb 2023-2025Senior Research Scientist2022-Feb 2023
Research Scientist2022-2022
Research Engineer2021-2022
AI Resident2020-2021
Education
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.
citations159,082As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,470Since last snapshot, Oct 19, '26
Selected contributions
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
With Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Brian Ichter, Fei Xia, Ed H. Chi, Quoc V. Le and others ·Showed that examples with reasoning steps can help language models solve harder problems.
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.
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.
References
- Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Modelsarxiv.org
Wei helped popularize chain-of-thought prompting, which lets language models improve complex reasoning by working through intermediate steps.
- Jason Wei — instruction tuning and emergent abilitiesjasonwei.net
He also made influential contributions to instruction tuning and the study of abilities that emerge as models scale.
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Reviewed August 9, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.
