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John Nham

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Research at OpenAI

Nham helped build AlphaGo, the landmark system that defeated a world champion at the game of Go. He later worked on making language models more factual and now develops systems that learn to reason through difficult problems.

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Background

Current role
Research Aug 2025-present
Previously
2024-Jul 2025Software Engineer, GenAI,
2016-2024Software Engineer, Google Research,
2013-2016Software Engineer, Google+ Social Infrastructure,
Education
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Last editorial review: August 24, 2026

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