Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Formerly Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Ex-Physicist.
Joined January 2021
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The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀
Our twin missions are to train better LLMs, and serve them more cheaply
Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design, reliable scaling, and faster optimization
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John Jumper, who won the Nobel prize at DeepMind alongside Demis, was reportedly placed on 12 months of garden leave after leaving.
One of the UK's top AI minds was been prevented from working on AI for TWELVE MONTHS.
This is crazy.
Meanwhile Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean left the company after 27 years and co-founded a Discovery Loop A DAY LATER.
We need to fix this.
One of the UK's leading AI labs has just launched an open letter to make the UK a much better place to recruit top talent.
They're calling for an end to non-competes, long notice periods and garden leave.
This is one of the biggest issues facing AI companies in the UK.
@MattEvantic has been calling for this to be changed.
@mati, @vriparbelli, @ac_edwards_1, @DanAkarca, @_rockt and many of the top AI founders in the UK have all signed it.
Also supported by the teams @join_ef, @pluralplatform, @airstreet and many others.
This would be a HUGE unlock if it happens.
Samuel L Smith retweeted
Please welcome GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the GPT-6 universe.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna build on the advances behind GPT-6 Astra, bringing much of its strengths into faster and more affordable models to support work at scale.
We’ve also made caching and inference more efficient, and we’re passing the savings directly to you: 50% lower API prices for Sol and Luna compared with GPT‑5.6 promotional pricing.
The London office played a crucial role in training GPT-6 Astra, and we're arranging a dinner with the research community to celebrate!
A mix of OAI leaders and researchers will be there, apply at: events.openai.com/gpt-6-lond…
Samuel L Smith retweeted
Not to forget our friends across the pond....
Next week we'll host a second smaller get-together to celebrate GPT-6 in London! Our team there delivered core contributions to Astra, and we'd love to celebrate with you :)
events.openai.com/gpt-6-lond…
(click my link not Sam's)
We want to celebrate with people using GPT-6. We did this for GPT-5.5 and it was really fun.
We’re getting together in SF on September 16 to talk about the model, what we should build next, and mostly just to hang out.
Apply by Sep 10:
gpt6-launch-event.openai.cha…
Samuel L Smith retweeted
I enjoyed using Astra at work: for the first time in my AI usage this model actually proposes reasonable ML hypotheses.
If you want to work on pretraining Astra successors, our London training team is hiring strong researchers! jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/6fdc…
Excited to wake up to a meeting invite from Noam!
Reminder: OpenAI is also hiring top pre-training researchers in London.
Come work with me @SavinovNikolay and the team on architecture, long-context, science of scaling, and more!
Contact [email protected]
Samuel L Smith retweeted
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.
It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
Samuel L Smith retweeted
Excited to share that I’ve joined OpenAI in London to work on pretraining!
I’ve spent the last few years on pretraining and long-context, and I’ll be helping grow the London team. We’re hiring exceptional researchers, please reach out: [email protected]
Samuel L Smith retweeted
Extremely excited to work with Nikolay!
The OpenAI London team has led huge wins on every model release we've had in the last year, and is all-around awesome :) Nikolay is an incredible addition, and if you're interested in joining, please reach out to him or I!
Excited to share that I’ve joined OpenAI in London to work on pretraining!
I’ve spent the last few years on pretraining and long-context, and I’ll be helping grow the London team. We’re hiring exceptional researchers, please reach out: [email protected]
Samuel L Smith retweeted
Anthropic chose FreeBSD to showcase their Mythos zero-days. In the latest release, 8 CVEs were announced:
3 found by Anthropic, 3 discovered by AISLE's AI (!)
AISLE is matching Mythos 3-for-3 on zero-days on the very codebase of their choosing at a fraction of the cost
Samuel L Smith retweeted
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is the second model to complete one of our multi-step cyber-attack simulations end-to-end 🧵
A big win born in @OpenAI London! 🇬🇧
Samuel L Smith retweeted
lots of exciting work happening in our london office!
The new London Training team @OpenAI has already had remarkable impact internally, alongside our phenomenal SF colleagues.
I'm so excited to now see our contributions start to land in production!
The new London Training team @OpenAI has already had remarkable impact internally, alongside our phenomenal SF colleagues.
I'm so excited to now see our contributions start to land in production!
Samuel L Smith retweeted
One of the best things in my career has been watching all the things Brain residents have gone on to do.
@JeffDean, @ilyasut, Samy, Leslie, and co sure put together an amazing program. Thanks a lot!
I love seeing all the amazing things our Google Brain Residents and AI Residency Program cohorts have gone on to do!
@hyhieu226's post spurred me to dig up a blog post and video from that era.
Blog: "Google Brain Residency Program - 7 months in and looking ahead" share.google/pe5yZVCNXASL2v1…
Video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNstfq…
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Riding in a @Waymo autonomous vehicle is an amazing futuristic experience, straight out of science fiction. So excited to see the service coming to my hometown in London 🇬🇧! Can't wait for Londoners to try them out soon!
Samuel L Smith retweeted
If anyone is interested on working in an exciting team at the frontier of LLM research in London, please reach out to me or Sam.
The Training team @OpenAI is hiring researchers in London 🚀
Our twin missions are to train better LLMs, and serve them more cheaply
Get in touch if you are excited to collaborate on architecture design, reliable scaling, and faster optimization