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Sébastien Bubeck

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Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

🇫🇷🇺🇸 French-American

Bubeck is an influential learning theorist whose work spans optimization, adversarial robustness and language models. At Microsoft he led the “Sparks of AGI” study and Phi small-model project; at OpenAI he studies how intelligence emerges inside large models.

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Background

Current role
Member of Technical Staff 2024-present
Previously
2014-2024Researcher -> VP AI and Distinguished Scientist,
2011-2014Assistant Professor,
Born1985
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2638,69234,44430,195Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
38,692citations as of Jun 15, '26+8,497 since Aug 25, '25
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