Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

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John Schulman

Researcher

Co-invented proximal policy optimization and led the post-training that produced ChatGPT at OpenAI. Joined Thinking Machines Lab in 2025 as chief scientist after a short stint at Anthropic.

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  1. Feb 2025 – now
  2. Dec 2015 – Aug 2024
    OpenAI, Co-founder; RLHF lead
    Sources John Schulman Wikipedia 2026-09-04