Former OpenAI staffer recalls joining in 2019, when GPT-2 was the cutting edge
saranormous · x · 2026-10-04
csvoss reflects on joining OpenAI in 2019, when the world only knew GPT-2: a transformer producing surprisingly coherent but factually wrong, dreamlike text. Having tinkered with Markov chains and Karpathy's 2015 char-rnn, they saw immediately that scaling GPT-2 would be revolutionary. saranormous congratulated them.
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