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Prafulla Dhariwal

Prafulla Dhariwal portrait

Technical Fellow at OpenAI

🇮🇳 Indian

Dhariwal has helped drive several generations of generative AI at OpenAI. He co-created systems for generating music and images, demonstrated that diffusion models could surpass the dominant image-generation methods of the time, and contributed to GPT-3 and GPT-4o.

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Background

Current role
Technical Fellow 2024-present
Previously
2023-2025Head of Multimodal,
2017-2024Research Scientist,
2014-2014Intern,
Education
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26209,824175,211140,597Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
209,824citations as of Sep 1, '26+5,149 since Aug 1, '26
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