University of Southern California
Connor HolmesResearcher
OpenAI
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Trevor Cai
TC
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Cai co-authored Chinchilla, which showed that smaller language models trained on more data could outperform much larger models using the same computing budget. At OpenAI, he contributed to GPT-4 and GPT-4V, which extended the model's capabilities from text to images.
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Member of Technical Staff 2022-presentOpenAI
OpenAIPreviously
2017-2022Staff Software Engineer, 
Google DeepMind
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