OpenAI o1 Core Lead Leaves to Start Company Betting on Automated AI Research
agihouse_org · x · 2026-08-01
AGI House hosted the Auto-Research Summit, bringing together top AI researchers to discuss the frontier trend of AI-driven automated scientific discovery.\n\nKey figures included Jerry Tworek, the OpenAI researcher who led the development of reasoning in o1, o3, and GPT-5, who has now left to start a company focused on automating research itself. He was joined by Pushmeet Kohli (Head of DeepMind's AI for Science, behind AlphaFold) and Kilian Lieret (creator of SWE-bench and SWE-agent).\n\nThe event also featured a build day resulting in 18 practical projects, signaling that AI-driven scientific research is becoming a major industry focus.
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