University of Southern California
Adi GaneshMember of Technical Staff · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Trevor Cai
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
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.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAI2022-presentMember of Technical Staff
OpenAI2022-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2017-2022Staff Software Engineer
Google DeepMind2017-2022Education
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.
citations55,536As of Oct 27, '26
citations+6,739Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
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.
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
With Oriol Vinyals, Igor Babuschkin, Wojciech Czarnecki, Michaël Mathieu, Andrew Dudzik, Junyoung Chung, David H. Choi and others ·AlphaStar reached Grandmaster level in StarCraft II through competitive AI training.
Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
With Jordan Hoffmann, Sebastian Borgeaud, Arthur Mensch, Elena Buchatskaya, Eliza Rutherford, Diego de las Casas, Lisa Anne Hendricks and others ·Chinchilla showed how smaller models trained on more data can better use a fixed computing budget.
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