University of Michigan
John NhamResearcher
OpenAI
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Researcher · Engineer
Will DePue
WD
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
DePue was a core contributor to Sora and Sora 2, OpenAI's video generators, then helped post-train o3, o4-mini, GPT-4o and GPT-5. His work has focused on reward models, tool use and reducing sycophancy—the tendency for assistants to agree with users instead of answering honestly.
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