“Safely aligning powerful AI systems is one of the most important unsolved problems for our mission. Techniques like learning from human feedback are helping us get closer, and we are actively researching new techniques to help us fill the gaps.” ... We are actively seeking talented individuals to join our team.

The OpenAI team is now 45 people. Together, we’re pushing the frontier of AI capabilities—whether by validating novel ideas, creating new software systems, or deploying machine learning on robots.

September 6, 2025 - In an interview with TechCrunch, Jang says she’s building out a new research team called OAI Labs, which will be responsible for “inventing and prototyping new interfaces for how people collaborate with AI.”

As a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas that work well even at large scale, and form part of a broader research vision that unifies the entire company.

The Research and Development Team at OpenAI focuses on advancing artificial intelligence technologies while prioritizing safety, ethical considerations, and alignment with human values.

OpenAI’s research team focuses on advancing artificial intelligence in ways that are safe, practical, and broadly beneficial. Their work spans three core areas: improving the capabilities of AI systems, ensuring those systems align with human ...

1 day ago - The board initially contacted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (a former OpenAI executive) about replacing Altman, and proposed a merger of the two companies, but both offers were declined. On November 20, 2023, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Altman and Brockman would be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team, but added that they were still committed to OpenAI despite recent events.

2 weeks ago - In a statement to WIRED, OpenAI spokesperson Rob Friedlander said the company hired its first chief economist, Aaron Chatterji, last year and has since expanded the scope of its economic research.

The Alignment team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our AI systems are safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values, even as they scale in complexity and capability.

OpenAI’s research assistant helps teams analyze millions of support tickets, surface insights faster, and scale curiosity across the company.

August 15, 2025 - Pachocki summed up their roles. Chen shapes and manages the research teams, he said. “I am responsible for setting the research roadmap and establishing our long-term technical vision.” · OpenAI is launching a version of ChatGPT for college studentsRead next

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

3 weeks ago - Since that launch I’ve treated ... Deep Research, Voice, Codex, Schedules and Memory in my daily work as a composer, founder and educator. Those notes turned into a longform essay, One Year With ChatGPT Pro as a First Hire. I’m deeply grateful for the continued support of folks like Kevin D. and Kevin Weil at OpenAI, and for everyone who’s already found it useful and has been sharing it around this week. If it’s helpful for you or your team as you think ...

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December 27, 2024 - OpenAI's research team primarily focuses on advancing artificial intelligence to ensure it is safe, beneficial, and useful for society. Their work is centered on developing AI systems that can understand and generate human-like text, while also exploring how to make these systems more reliable ...

About the Team · OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our AI systems are safe, trustworthy, useful, and consistently aligned with human values, even as they scale in complexity and capability. Our research focuses on methods that help AI reliably follow human intent in diverse scenarios—including adversarial or high-stakes settings—and ultimately maximize its benefit to individuals and society.

Work on retrieval & search algorithms and methodologies in close collaboration with our research team, including problems in such domains as document search, enterprise search, knowledge retrieval, and web-scale search.

Bain & Company researcher Reem Anchassi uses OpenAI deep research to understand complex industry trends.

Rein Houthooft. Rein⁠(opens in a new window) hails from Belgium, started his research career in the field of computer networking, and now is developing novel ways to incorporate uncertainty into deep reinforcement learning algorithms.