OpenAI o1 Contributions
Reasoning Research
Foundational Contributors
Ahmed El-Kishky, Daniel Selsam, Francis Song, Giambattista Parascandolo, Hongyu Ren, Hunter Lightman, Hyung Won Chung, Ilge Akkaya, Ilya Sutskever, Jason Wei, Jonathan Gordon, Karl Cobbe, Kevin Yu, Lukas Kondraciuk, Max Schwarzer, Mostafa Rohaninejad, Noam Brown, Shengjia Zhao, Trapit Bansal, Vineet Kosaraju, Wenda Zhou
Leadership
Jakub Pachocki, Jerry Tworek (overall), Liam Fedus, Lukasz Kaiser, Mark Chen, Szymon Sidor, Wojciech Zaremba
Core Contributors
Alex Karpenko, Alexander Wei, Allison Tam, Ananya Kumar, Andre Saraiva, Andrew Kondrich, Andrey Mishchenko, Ashvin Nair, Behrooz Ghorbani, Brandon McKinzie, Brydon Eastman, Chak Ming Li, Chris Koch, Dan Roberts, David Dohan, David Mely, Dimitris Tsipras, Enoch Cheung, Eric Wallace, Hadi Salman, Haiming Bao, Hessam Bagherinezhad, Ilya Kostrikov, Jiacheng Feng, John Rizzo, Karina Nguyen, Kevin Lu, Kevin Stone, Lorenz Kuhn, Mason Meyer, Mikhail Pavlov, Nat McAleese, Oleg Boiko, Oleg Murk, Peter Zhokhov, Randall Lin, Raz Gaon, Rhythm Garg, Roshan James, Rui Shu, Scott McKinney, Shibani Santurkar, Suchir Balaji, Taylor Gordon, Thomas Dimson, Weiyi Zheng
Contributors
Aaron Jaech, Adam Lerer, Aiden Low, Alex Carney, Alexander Neitz, Alexander Prokofiev, Benjamin Sokolowsky, Boaz Barak, Borys Minaiev, Botao Hao, Bowen Baker, Brandon Houghton, Camillo Lugaresi, Chelsea Voss, Chen Shen, Chris Orsinger, Daniel Kappler, Daniel Levy, Doug Li, Eben Freeman, Edmund Wong, Fan Wang, Felipe Petroski Such, Foivos Tsimpourlas, Geoff Salmon, Gildas Chabot, Guillaume Leclerc, Hart Andrin, Ian O'Connell, Ian Osband, Ignasi Clavera Gilaberte, Jean Harb, Jiahui Yu, Jiayi Weng, Joe Palermo, John Hallman, Jonathan Ward, Julie Wang, Kai Chen, Katy Shi, Keren Gu-Lemberg, Kevin Liu, Leo Liu, Linden Li, Luke Metz, Maja Trebacz, Manas Joglekar, Marko Tintor, Melody Guan, Mengyuan Yan, Mia Glaese, Michael Malek, Michelle Fradin, Mo Bavarian, Nikolas Tezak, Ofir Nachum, Paul Ashbourne, Pavel Izmailov, Rapha Gontijo Lopes, Reah Miyara, Reimar Leike, Robin Brown, Ryan Cheu, Ryan Greene, Saachi Jain, Scottie Yan, Shengli Hu, Shuyuan Zhang, Siyuan Fu, Spencer Papay, Suvansh Sanjeev, Tao Wang, Ted Sanders, Tejal Patwardhan, Thibault Sottiaux, Tianhao Zheng, Timur Garipov, Valerie Qi, Vitchyr Pong, Vlad Fomenko, Yinghai Lu, Yining Chen, Yu Bai, Yuchen He, Yuchen Zhang, Zheng Shao, Zhuohan Li
Program Managers
Lauren Yang, Mianna Chen
Executive Leadership
Barret Zoph (organization), Bob McGrew, Greg Brockman, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen (organization), Mira Murati, Sam Altman, Tal Broda (organization)
Supporting Leadership
Aidan Clark, Aleksander Madry, Christopher Hesse, David Farhi, Jie Tang, Lilian Weng, Mia Glaese, Nick Ryder
Reasoning Technical Safety
o1 Safety Leads
Boaz Barak, Eric Wallace, Jieqi Yu, Kai Xiao, Saachi Jain, Sam Toizer, Sandhini Agarwal, Tejal Patwardhan
Safety Research
Andrea Vallone, Chong Zhang, Ian Kivlichan, Keren Gu-Lemberg, Manas Joglekar, Melody Guan, Meghan Shah, Randall Lin, Sam Toyer, Shraman Ray Chaudhuri, Steph Lin
Safety Infrastructure
Adam Richardson, Andrew Duberstein, Charles de Bourcy, Dragos Oprica, Florencia Leoni, Madelaine Boyd, Matt Jones, Matt Kaufer, Mehmet Yatbaz, Mengyuan Xu, Mike McClay, Mingxuan Wang, Trevor Creech, Vinnie Monaco
Preparedness Evaluations
Erik Ritter, Evan Mays,Joel Parish, Jonathan Uesato, Katy Shi, Kevin Liu, Leon Maksin, Michele Wang, Miles Wang, Neil Chowdhury, Olivia Watkins, Patrick Chao, Rachel Dias, Samuel Miserendino
External Red Teaming
Lama Ahmad, Michael Lampe, Troy Peterson
Internal Red Teaming
Bowen Baker, Joost Huizinga, Karina Nguyen, Wojciech Zaremba
Safety Leadership
Alex Beutel, Aleksander Madry, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Johannes Heidecke, Lilian Weng, Mia Glaese
We also acknowledge and thank every OpenAI team member not explicitly mentioned above, including the amazing people on the executive assistant, finance, go to market, human resources, legal, operations and recruiting teams. From hiring everyone in the company, to making sure we have an amazing office space, to building the administrative, HR, legal, and financial structures that allow us to do our best work, everyone at OpenAI has contributed to o1.
We thank Microsoft for their partnership, especially Microsoft Azure for supporting model training with infrastructure design and management, and the Microsoft Bing team and Microsoft's safety teams for their partnership on safe deployment.
We are grateful to our expert adversarial testers and red teamers who helped test our models at early stages of development and informed our risk assessments as well as the system card. Participation in this red teaming process is not an endorsement of the deployment plans of OpenAI or OpenAI’s policies.
*Contributors listed in alphabetized order