OpenAI's Lead Reasoning Researcher Was Rejected by MIT Faculty in 2020
mickeyxfriedman · x · 2026-08-03
Giambattista Parascandolo, a key researcher behind OpenAI's reasoning models, interviewed for a faculty position at MIT in 2020. His presentation on reasoning models was dismissed by most of the interview committee as nonsense. With the massive success of models like o1, this anecdote has become a popular topic in the AI community.
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