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Founder
John Schulman
John Schulman founded OpenAI (2015) and Thinking Machines Lab (2025), and previously worked at OpenAI and Anthropic.
American computer scientist
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The world around John Schulman — companies founded, co-founders, and where they came from. Hover a node to explore; click to open.
Companies founded by John Schulman
2Co-founders
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Andrej Karpathy
Co-founded OpenAI
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Andrew Tulloch
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Barret Zoph
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Barrett Zoph
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Diederik P. Kingma
Co-founded OpenAI
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Durk Kingma
Co-founded OpenAI
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Elon Musk
Co-founded OpenAI
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Greg Brockman
Co-founded OpenAI
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Ilya Sutskever
Co-founded OpenAI
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Lilian Weng
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Luke Metz
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Mira Murati
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Pamela Vagata
Co-founded OpenAI
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Sam Altman
Co-founded OpenAI
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Trevor Blackwell
Co-founded OpenAI
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Vicki Cheung
Co-founded OpenAI
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Wojciech Zaremba
Co-founded OpenAI
Came from
2Where John Schulman worked or built before — the roots of the lineage.
Also came from OpenAI
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Aravind Srinivas
American artificial intelligence company
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Barret Zoph
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Chris Olah
Canadian machine learning researcher (born 1991 or 1992)
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Daniel Levy
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Daniela Amodei
American entrepreneur (born 1987)
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Dario Amodei
American AI entrepreneur (born 1983)
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David Luan
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Elon Musk
Businessman (born 1971)
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Igor Babuschkin